Lynne Truss
| Lynne Truss | |
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| Born |
31 May 1955 Kingston upon Thames, England |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | English |
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Lynne Truss (born 31 May 1955) is an English author, journalist, novelist, and radio broadcaster and dramatist. 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. The book was inspired by a BBC Radio 4 show about punctuation, Cutting a Dash, which she hosted.
Besides her promotion of and commentary on English grammar, Truss has written many radio plays, both comedic and dramatic. She has also written novels, and grammar guides for children.
Truss began her media career as a literary editor. She then spent six years as a television critic for The Times, before moving into sports journalism for the same newspaper. She spent four years in the latter field, and in 2009 wrote a book about her experiences with it, Get Her Off the Pitch: How Sport Took Over My Life.
In August 2014, Truss was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence, in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue.
This list excludes standalone plays.
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