Stewart Kellerman is an American author, journalist, and blogger who has reported on wars in Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. A former editor at ''

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'' and foreign correspondent for

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, he has covered conflicts in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Bangladesh, Argentina, Uruguay, Israel, and the Arab world.
Kellerman earned a bachelor's degree from

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

in 1964 and later did research at Columbia's

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while he was the 1972–73 Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the

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. During his career with UPI, he wrote feature stories from the battle zones in addition to news dispatches. A feature written on Christmas Eve 1971, about a party for the children of South Vietnamese soldiers, became the foreword to Alan Dawson's book ''55 Days: The Fall of South Vietnam'' (1977).
He has also written a comic novel about growing old in America, and has co-authored books and articles about the

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with his wife, the language commentator

Patricia T. O'Conner Patricia T. O'Conner (born Feb. 19, 1949) is the author of five books about the English language. A former staff editor at ''The New York Times Book Review'', she has appeared regularly as a language commentator for WNYC and Iowa Public Radio. Sh ...

. He has written book reviews and articles on cultural subjects for the Times. He and O'Conner write about language on The Grammarphobia Blog, where they have answered nearly 4,000 questions from readers since 2006.

Publications

Books

* ''Swan Song: A Novel'' (Rushwater Press, 2019). * ''Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language'', co-authored by O'Conner (Random House, 2010). * ''You Send Me: Getting It Right When You Write Online'', co-authored by O'Conner (Harcourt, 2002).

References

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