Patricia T. O'Conner

Patricia T. O’Conner, a former editor at The New York Times Book Review, has written four books on language and writing–the bestselling Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe’s Guide to Better English in Plain English; Words Fail Me: What Everyone Who Writes Should Know About Writing; Woe Is I Jr.: The Younger Grammarphobe’s Guide to Better English in Plain English; and You Send Me: Getting It Right When You Write Online.
Stewart Kellerman has been an editor at The New York Times and a foreign correspondent for UPI in Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. He co-authored You Send Me with his wife, Patricia T. O’Conner, and he runs their website and blog at grammarphobia.com. They live in rural Connecticut.

Books by Patricia T. O'Conner

Origins of the Specious

Patricia T. O'Conner, Stewart Kellerman

Just in time for back-to-school, a perfect book for students, teachers and language mavens--a book Garrison Keillor called: "[A] tour de force...If you're planning to buy just one book of etymology this year, you've got it right in your hand."

Woe Is I

Patricia T. O'Conner

A revised and updated edition of the iconic grammar guide for the twenty-first century.