Mary Norris is the author of Greek to Me and the New York Times bestseller Between You & Me, an account of her years in the New Yorker copy department. Originally from Cleveland, she lives in New York. Her favourite pencil used to be the Dixon Ticonderoga No. 1, but she now makes do with the Palomino Blackwing.

Watch a video series by Mary Norris on copy-editing for the New Yorker.

Listen to the Interrobang podcast with Jane Caro for The Wheeler Centre.

See Mary Norris’s TED talk.

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