Jack Lynch on Bryan Garner
Jack Lynch is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Rutgers/Newark. In addition to many scholarly publications, focusing on 18th century British literature, notably Samuel Johnson, he has written widely and brilliantly for a general audience, in books including:
Becoming Shakespeare: The Unlikely Afterlife That Turned a Provincial Playwright into the Bard; You Could Look It Up: The Reference Shelf From Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia; and The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of 'Proper' English, from Shakespeare to South Park. He’s currently working on a book about the greatest reference book, and perhaps the greatest book, of all time, the Oxford English Dictionary.
Bryan Garner's website
Jack Lynch's website
David Foster Wallace's essay on Garner, "Authority and American Usage"
The photo is of a Bryan Garner bobblehead
