![]() ![]() ![]() She then spent six years as a television critic for The Times, before moving into sports journalism for the same newspaper. Truss began her media career as a literary editor. ![]() She was educated at the Tiffin Girls' School and University College London, where she was awarded a first-class degree in English Language and Literature. Truss was born on in Kingston upon Thames. She has also written grammar guides for children and novels. The book was inspired by a BBC Radio 4 show about punctuation, Cutting a Dash, which she presented.īesides her promotion of linguistic prescription and commentary on English grammar, Truss has written many radio plays, both comedic and dramatic. She is arguably best known for her championing of correctness and aesthetics in the English language, which is the subject of her popular and widely discussed 2003 book, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. Lynne Truss (born ) is an English author, journalist, novelist, and radio broadcaster and dramatist. ![]()
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