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Lynne Truss
Truss in 2015
Born	(1955-05-31)31 May 1955 (age 69) Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England
Occupation	Author, journalist
Website
lynnetruss.com

Lynne Truss (born 31 May 1955)^[1] is an English author, journalist, novelist, andradio broadcaster anddramatist. 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.^[2] The book was inspired by aBBC Radio 4 show about punctuation,Cutting a Dash, which she presented.

Besides her promotion oflinguistic prescription and commentary on English grammar, Truss has written many radio plays, bothcomedic anddramatic. She has also written grammar guides for children and novels, including crime fiction. She was inducted into theDetection Club in 2021.

Truss was born on 31 May 1955 inKingston upon Thames. She was educated at theTiffin Girls' School andUniversity College London, where she was awarded afirst-class degree in English Language and Literature.^[3]

Truss began her media career as a literary editor. She then spent six years as a television critic forThe Times, before moving intosports journalism for the same newspaper. She spent four years in the latter field and in 2009 wrote a book about her experiences with it,Get Her Off the Pitch: How Sport Took Over My Life.

In August 2014, Truss was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter toThe Guardian expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September'sreferendum on that issue.^[4]

• With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed – Hamish Hamilton (1994)ISBN 978-0-241-13410-8; Penguin (1995)ISBN 0-14-017938-0; Profile Books (2004)ISBN 1-86197-749-2
• Tennyson's Gift – Hamish Hamilton (1996)ISBN 0-241-13521-4; Penguin (1997)ISBN 0-14-024671-1; Profile Books (2004)ISBN 1-86197-733-6
• Going Loco – Review (Hodder Headline) (1999)ISBN 0-7472-5965-8; Profile Books (2004)ISBN 1-86197-733-6
• Cat Out of Hell – Hammer (2014)ISBN 978-0-09-958534-3
• The Lunar Cats (2017)ISBN 978-1-7847-5688-8
• A Shot in the Dark (A Constable Twitten Mystery) – Raven Books (2018)ISBN 978-1-4088-9051-6
• The Man That Got Away: A Constable Twitten Mystery (2019)ISBN 978-1-6355-7073-1
• Murder by Milk Bottle (A Constable Twitten Mystery) (2020)ISBN 978-1-5266-0979-3
• Psycho by the Sea (A Constable Twitten Mystery) (2021)ISBN 978-1-5266-0987-8

• Making the Cat Laugh: One Woman's Journal of Single Life on the Margins (1995)
• Tennyson and his Circle (1999)
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (2003)
• Glued to the Goggle Box: 50 Years of British TV with Freeze-Frames (2003) – with John Minnion
• Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of Everyday Life (2005)
• Get Her Off the Pitch: How Sport Took Over My Life (2009)

• The Girl's Like Spaghetti: Why, You Can't Manage Without Apostrophes! (2007)
• Twenty-Odd Ducks: Why, Every Punctuation Mark Counts (2008)

• A Certain Age: Twelve Monologues From the Classic Radio Series – Profile Books (2007)ISBN 1-86197-879-0
• Giving Up the Ghost – BBC Radio 4 (2008)

• Acropolis Now – set inAncient Greece (2000–2002)
• A Certain Age (BBC Audio Collection, two vols.) – BBC Audiobooks (2005, 2007)ISBN 0-563-51052-8,ISBN 1-4056-7687-6
• Inspector Steine – set in a 1950s Englishpolice station (2007–2013)
• Gossip from the Garden Pond (2014)
• Rumblings from the Rafters (2016)

This list excludes standaloneplays.

• Official website
• "A Certain Age: The Radio Monologues".Episode Guides. Radio show. 2006.

• 1955 births
• Living people
• English journalists
• English non-fiction writers
• English dramatists and playwrights
• 20th-century English novelists
• 21st-century English novelists
• English radio writers
• Women radio writers
• People from Kingston upon Thames
• Alumni of University College London
• Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature
• Writers of style guides
• People educated at the Tiffin Girls' School
• Members of the Detection Club

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