Patricia T. O'Conner

Profile: Patricia T. O’Conner is the author of <em>Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe’s Guide to Better English in Plain English</em>. With almost 500,000 copies in print, <em>Woe Is I</em> has been hailed by writers.com as “possibly the most popular book on grammar ever published.” It was followed by <em>Words Fail Me: What Everyone Who Writes Should Know About Writing</em> and <em>You Send Me: Getting It Right When You Write Online</em> (written with her husband, Stewart Kellerman). Pat’s most recent book is <em>Woe Is I Jr.</em>, for 9- to 12-year-olds. She is a regular monthly guest on public radio station WNYC in New York. She was an editor at <em>The New York Times Book Review</em> for many years. Visit her website, grammarphobia.com.

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