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Author: Mary Norris

Greek To Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen is a lovely, readable memoir of the love of language and place. 
“It is one of the most satisfying accounts of a great passion that I have ever read,” said Vivian Gornick in a review published in The New York Times.
“It traces a decades-long obsession with Greece: Its language (both modern and ancient), literature, mythologies, people, places, food and monuments — all with an absorption that never falters and never squanders the reader’s attention,” Gornick added.
The book “is structured not as a scholarly guide but as a presentation of the variousness of Mary Norris’ Greek experiences held together by stretches of prose devoted, on the one hand, to her memories of early family life in Irish Catholic Cleveland and, on the other, to life on the copy desk at The New Yorker. Collectively, these strands lend the work a tone that suggests girlishness,” Gornick added.
A review in goodreads.com said: “The book, rich in the history of language and the alphabet ... takes us on a journey with the written and spoken word … It’s the alpha to omega of everything, really.”