Jim Baumann is the executive editor of the Daily Herald, based in suburban Chicago. He also is an award-winning humor columnist and editorial writer whose Grammar Moses column runs weekly in the Daily Herald as well as in the Daily Herald Media Group’s dozens of weekly publications throughout Illinois. He attended Prospect High School and the University of Illinois before joining the newspaper staff as an intern in 1983. He lives in Carpentersville, Illinois, with his wife, Patt. Read More
Grammar Moses
November 8, 2021
Trade paperback
$20.00
For 30 years as an editor at the Daily Herald in suburban Chicago, Jim Baumann has tried to impart grammar and usage advice to his work groups with a dash of humor. In 2015, he turned what had been an internal memo to the newspaper staff into a column published every Sunday in the Daily Herald as well as the company’s other newspapers in central and southern Illinois. This book is a compilation of Jim’s favorite columns and a sampling of never-before-published internal memos that led up to it.
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Jim Baumann
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“Forget about the traditional ‘grammar police’ approach used in most education. Grammar Moses operates more like a veracious and subversive sit-down comic, causing useful writing lessons to masquerade as entertaining anecdotes. Whether you are a novelist, screenwriter, playwright or pen pal, Grammar Moses works miracles by parting the Read Sea and preventing you from drowning in verbosity.”
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“The time is right for a fresh look at grammar, and Jim Baumann takes us on a delightful tour of modern-day dilemmas in usage. He knows exactly how to help us corral our wandering commas, meandering modifiers and catastrophes among apostrophes.”
Summary
For 30 years as an editor at the Daily Herald in suburban Chicago, Jim Baumann has tried to impart grammar and usage advice to his work groups with a dash of humor. What started out as occasional notes to a few people became a rogue internal memo to the whole newspaper editorial staff. In 2015, he decided to turn it into a weekly column that would be an ongoing conversation with readers – in the Daily Herald as well as the Daily Herald Media Group’s other newspapers in central and southern Illinois. This book is a compilation of Jim’s favorite columns from the past six years as well as some never-before-published internal memos that led up to the column.