Lynne Truss
English writer · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Born 1955 · age 71
Lynne Truss is an English author, journalist, novelist, and radio broadcaster and dramatist. She champions correctness and aesthetics in the English language, which is the subject of her 2003 book, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation.
Lynne Truss is read about 34 times a day, in 8 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 18 June 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
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The book was inspired by a BBC Radio 4 show about punctuation, Cutting a Dash, which she presented.
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United Kingdom
Category
Writers
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Writer / Author
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Born 1955 · age 71
