Benjamin Dreyer, author of the New York Times bestseller Dreyer’s English, is the retired copy chief and managing editor of Random House.
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He has copyedited books by authors including Amy Bloom, E. L. Doctorow, David Ebershoff, Rachel Joyce, Frank Rich, and Elizabeth Strout, as well as Let Me Tell You, a volume of previously uncollected work by Shirley Jackson.
He lives in Santa Monica, California.
“Dreyer beckons readers by showing that his rules make prose pleasurable. . . . His book is in love with the toothsomeness of language. Its sentences capture writing’s physicality.”
— The New Yorker
“Brimming with wit and revelatory wisdom.”
— O: The Oprah Magazine
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“A mind-blower—sure to jumpstart any writing project, just by exposing you, the writer, to Dreyer’s astonishing level of sentence awareness.”
— George Saunders
“Essential to anyone who cares about language.”
— Lyle Lovett
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