Benjamin Dreyer is vice president, executive managing editor and copy chief, of Random House. He began his publishing career as a freelance proofreader and copy editor. In 1993, he became a production editor at Random House, overseeing books by writers including Michael Chabon, Edmund Morris, Suzan-Lori Parks, Michael Pollan, Peter Straub, and Calvin Trillin. He has copyedited books by authors including E. L. Doctorow, David Ebershoff, Frank Rich, and Elizabeth Strout, as well as Let Me Tell You, a volume of previously uncollected work by Shirley Jackson. A graduate of Northwestern University, he lives in New York City.
"An essential (and delightful!) grammar guide . . . interwoven with
cultural history and lively self-revelation, this bracing manual
will up your game even if all you're writing is
emails."--People (Book of the Week)
"Playful, smart, self-conscious, and personal . . . One encounters
wisdom and good sense on nearly every page of Dreyer's
English."--The Wall Street Journal
"Destined to become a classic."--The Millions
"Dreyer can help you . . . with tips on punctuation and
spelling. . . . Even better: He'll entertain you while he's at
it."--Newsday (What to Read This Week) "An utterly
delightful book to read, Dreyer's English will stand among the
classics on how to use the English language
properly."--Elizabeth Strout "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
"Farewell, Strunk and White. Benjamin Dreyer's brilliant, pithy,
incandescently intelligent book is to contemporary writing what
Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry was to medieval English: a gift that
broadens and deepens the art and the science of literature by
illustrating that convention should not stand in the way of
creativity, so long as that creativity is expressed with clarity
and with conviction."--Jon Meacham
"It is Benjamin Dreyer's intense love for the English language and
his passion for the subject that make the experience of reading
Dreyer's English such a pleasure, almost regardless of the
invaluable and practical purpose his book serves in such dark and
confusing times for grammar and meaning."--Ayelet Waldman &
Michael Chabon
"If Oscar Wilde had wanted to be helpful as well as brilliant, if
E. B. White and No l Coward had had a wonderful little boy who grew
up to cherish and model clarity, the result would be Benjamin
Dreyer and his frankly perfect book. Anyone who writes anything
should have a copy by their computer, and perhaps another on the
nightstand, just for pleasure."--Amy Bloom
"Dreyer's English is essential to anyone who cares about language.
It's as smart and funny as Dreyer is himself. He makes you smile
and makes you smarter at the same time."--Lyle
Lovett
"Like Dreyer himself, this book reassures as it teaches. The reader
never feels spoken down to, as in so many other style guides, but
is instead lifted up, inspired to communicate with more clarity and
zing. I'll be buying this for friends."--Brian Koppelman,
co-creator and showrunner of Billions
"This work is that rare writing handbook that writers might
actually want to read straight through, rather than simply
consult."--Publishers Weekly (starred
review)
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