Английская Википедия:Benjamin Dreyer
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox person Benjamin Dreyer (born May 11, 1958) is an American writer and copy editor. He was copy chief at Random House until he retired in 2023 [1] and the author of Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style (2019).
Early life
Dreyer was born May 11, 1958[2] in a Jewish family.[3] He grew up in Queens, New York and Albertson, Long Island.[4] He attended Northwestern University.[5]
Career
Early in his career, Dreyer pursued writing[6] and acting.[4] He worked in bars and restaurants before turning to freelance proofreading, then copy editing.[4] In 1993 he joined Random House full time as a production editor.[5] He was promoted from group manager to senior managing editor and copy chief in 2008[7] and served as vice-president, executive managing editor and copy chief, at the Random House division of Penguin Random House.[5] until 2023. Supervising the publication of hundreds of titles a year—The New York Times describes Dreyer's role as "style-arbiter-of-last-resort"—he works only with novelist Elizabeth Strout as the sole author he continues to copy-edit himself.[4]
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style was published in the US on January 29, 2019, with a UK edition to follow on May 30, 2019.[8] Dreyer began the project as a revision of an internal memo to advise copy editors and proofreaders at Random House.[9] The memo expanded to about 20 pages and eventually Dreyer became interested in developing it as a book, published with Random House. Dreyer's English debuted at number nine on The New York Times bestseller list for "Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous"[10] and received enthusiastic reviews.[11][12] In The New Yorker, Katy Waldman writes that "Dreyer beckons readers by showing that his rules make prose pleasurable...The author’s delight in his tool kit is palpable."[13] In Paste, Frannie Jackson recommends the book as "invaluable to everyone who wants to shore up their writing skills and an utter treat for anyone who simply revels in language."[14] In The Wall Street Journal, Ben Yagoda finds "wisdom and good sense on nearly every page of 'Dreyer’s English.'"[15] (Yagoda also notes a trend of "copy editors’ memoirs-cum-style guides", comparing Dreyer's English to "the splendid Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen" from New Yorker copy editor Mary Norris.)[15]
The Washington Post calls Dreyer "the unofficial language guru on Twitter".[16]
Personal life
Dreyer lives in New York City.[5]
See also
References
External links
- Excerpt from Dreyer's English published by The Paris Review
- Recording of Dreyer reading his essay Writers, be wary of Throat-Clearers and Wan Intensifiers. Very, very wary.
- ↑ 'Words in Progress: Notes From a Retired Copy Chief,' Kirkus Reviews, December 13,2023
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