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Barbara Wallraff
Barbara has been an invited speaker at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, the National Writers Workshop, the Nieman Foundation, the Radcliffe Publishing Course, the British Institute Library of Florence, and national or international conventions of the American Copy Editors Society, the Council of Science Editors, the International Education of Students organization, and the Journalism Education Association. She has been interviewed about language on the Nightly News With Tom Brokaw and dozens of radio programs including Fresh Air, The Diane Rehm Show, and All Things Considered. National Public Radio's Morning Edition once commissioned her to copy edit the U.S. Constitution. She is a member of the American Heritage Dictionary Usage Panel. Her writing about language has appeared in publications including The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Wilson Quarterly, The American Scholar, and The New York Times Magazine. The Genus V edition of the game Trivial Pursuit contains a question about Barbara and her Word Court column. Recent articles by Barbara Wallraff: Word CourtWrong time to write right; expressing discretion. Word CourtPlurals at the Pentagon; identifying flying objects. Word FugitivesMarking exes' spots; living in excess. Word CourtCut to the chase; dictionary dilemmas. Word FugitivesBaby making; turn off the phone! Word CourtRules of thump; settling the score. Word FugitivesCringe benefits; mastering drykwondo Word CourtBy the pocketbook; "etymologic" debates. Word FugitivesOur cars, ourselves; affair-whether friends. Word CourtThe art of ant eating; another N word. Word FugitivesToeing the line; Oh, no, you dishn't! Word CourtDubious distinctions; the F-word. Word FugitivesMockingbird blu; technological no-how. Word CourtFast and unloose; late-model blues. Word FugitivesKind husbands; the land of iTunesia. The Romance of Big SurA visit to a rugged and beautiful California haven that is all the more lovable for its idiosyncrasies. A Secret CaribbeanMarie Galante and Les Saintes are islands that the French have been keeping for themselves. Assisted HikingPurists regard using a helicopter to reach luscious mountain locales as somehow unfair. Let them. Peeping in PeaceNot only New England has fall foliage worth traveling to see—Canada's uncrowded Maritime Provinces do too. |
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Barbara Wallraff, a contributing editor and the back-page Word Court and Word Fugitives columnist for The Atlantic, has worked for the magazine since 1983. In the world of language commentary, Barbara offers an unequaled combination of authority, accessibility, and popularity. Besides her work for The Atlantic, she is a weekly syndicated columnist for King Features, and she is the author of Word Fugitives (2006), Your Own Words (2004), and the national best-seller Word Court (2000).