Mary Norris began working at the New Yorker in 1978. Originally from Cleveland, she now lives in New York. This is her first book. 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.

Find out more about Mary Norris