Mary Norris (born February 7, 1952) is an American author, writer and copy editor for ''

The New Yorker ''The New Yorker'' is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues ...

''.

Early life

Mary Norris was raised in

Cleveland Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the United States, U.S. U.S. state, state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along ...

, Ohio. She graduated from

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was ...

in 1974 and earned a

master's degree A master's degree (from Latin ) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

in English from the

University of Vermont The University of Vermont (UVM), officially the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, is a public land-grant research university in Burlington, Vermont. It was founded in 1791 and is among the oldest universities in the Unite ...

Career

Norris joined the editorial staff at ''

'' in 1978. She has been a query proofreader at the magazine since 1993. She has also been a contributor to "The Talk of the Town" and ''The New Yorker'' website. Her first book, ''Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen,'' was published by W. W. Norton & Co in 2015. Norris was a finalist in the 2016 Thurber Prize for American Humor for ''Between You & Me''. She gave a TED talk at TED2016 on the same topic. Her second book, ''Greek to Me – Adventures of a Comma Queen'' (2019), explores her relation to foreign languages, particularly to classical Greek.

References

External links

''New Yorker'' profile
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