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Bryan A. Garner is an author, lawyer, grammarian, and lexicographer. He has written over 25 books, including standard references such as Garner’s Modern English Usage and Legal Writing in Plain English. His friendship with novelist David Foster Wallace resulted in Quack This Way: David Foster Wallace and Bryan A. Garner Talk Language and Writing. He is Distinguished Research Professor of Law at Southern Methodist University. Jack Lynch is an educator and author whose books include The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of “Proper” English, from Shakespeare to South Park and You Could Look It Up: The Reference Shelf from Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia. He is Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark.
“This fascinating history of English language dictionaries shows their evolution from fifteenth-century glossaries of early English through current online dictionaries . . . A delight for lexicographers, etymologists, philologists, and word geeks.” —Booklist “What an achievement for both Bryan A. Garner and Jack Lynch. Hardly Harmless Drudgery serves multiple constituencies, appealing both to the curious lover of books and to the scholar. We are fortunate that through Godine, the authors have made the book commercially accessible to everyone. It’s a rare coffee-table book that marries beautiful photography with first-rate scholarship.” —David E. Vancil, Retired Director, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Indiana State University “Hardly Harmless Drudgery is an exciting and enriching read, an intellectually delectable feast for anyone who loves the beauty of dictionaries and the richness of their cultural content.” —Edward Finegan, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Law, University of Southern California
