Lynne Truss
1955
Lynne Truss is one of the award winning novelists from The United Kingdom who has written a few famous novels based on the nonfiction genre. She is particularly famous for writing down the successful books titled ‘Approach To Punctuation’, ‘Eats, Shoots, and Leaves’, and ‘Cat Out Of Hell’. Apart from being a successful author, Lynne is also a well known journalist in England. Author Lynne was born on May 31, 1955, in Kingston, England, The United Kingdom. In the year 2014, she was included in the list of 200 prominent public figures who became signatories to a letter given to The Guardian for opposing the Scottish Independence. The list was made public by The Guardian in the run up of the September referendum on the issue. Apart from these, author Lynne also hosted a radio series for BBC Radio 4. It was known as ‘Cutting A Dash’ and was related to punctuation. The series was directly inspired from the bestselling book by author Lynne, titled as ‘Eats, Shoots, and Leaves’. Before going on to work as a journalist and writer, author Lynne started her professional career as a literary editor. She used to work with a blue pencil, but then she got distracted and went on to try different career paths.