Stewart Kellerman

Stewart Kellerman

Stewart Kellerman (born December 13, 1941, in New York City) is an American author, journalist, and blogger who has reported on wars in Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.^[1] A former editor at The New York Times^[1] and foreign correspondent for United Press International,^[1] he has covered conflicts in Vietnam,^[2][3] Cambodia,^[4] Laos,^[5] Bangladesh,^[6] Argentina,^[7] Uruguay,^[8] Israel,^[9] and the Arab world.^[10]

Kellerman earned a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University^[11] in 1964 and later did research at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs^[11] while he was the 1972–73 Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.^[12] During his career with UPI, he wrote feature stories from the battle zones^{[13][14][15][16] [17][18]} in addition to news dispatches. A feature written on Christmas Eve 1971,^[19] about a party for the children of South Vietnamese soldiers, became the foreword to Alan Dawson’s book 55 Days: The Fall of South Vietnam (1977).^[20]

He has also written a comic novel about growing old in America,^[21] and has co-authored books^[21] and articles^{[22][23][24][25][26]} about the English language with his wife,^[27] the language commentator Patricia T. O'Conner. He has written book reviews^[28][29][30] and articles on cultural subjects^[31][32][33] for the Times. He and O’Conner write about language on The Grammarphobia Blog,^[34] where they have answered nearly 4,000 questions from readers since 2006.

Selected Works[]

Books[]

• Swan Song: A Novel (Rushwater Press, 2019). ISBN 978-0-9801-53286^[21]

• Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language, co-authored by O’Conner (Random House, 2010). ISBN 978-0-8129-7810-0^[21]

• You Send Me: Getting It Right When You Write Online, co-authored by O’Conner (Harcourt, 2002). ISBN 978-0-15-602733-5^[21]

Articles[]

• On Language: “All-Purpose Pronoun,” The New York Times Magazine, July 21, 2009.^[22]

• On Language: “Virtual: Welcome to the email combat zone,” New York Times Magazine, Aug. 11, 2002.^[23]

• Opinion: “The I’s Have It,” The New York Times, Feb. 23, 2009.^[24]

• Opinion: “Grammarians are different from you and I,” The New York Times, Dec. 4, 2009.^[25]

• “Most of What You Think You Know About Grammar Is Wrong,” Smithsonian, February 2013.^[26]

• “Down the Hatch,” a review of Susan Allport’s The Primal Feast: Food, Sex, Foraging, and Love, The New York Times Book Review, March 12, 2000.^[28]

• “Grassy Knolls,” a review of Norman Henderson’s Rediscovering the Great Plains, The New York Times Book Review, May 19, 2002.^[29]

• “Nothing but Net,” a review of Robert Michael Pyle’s Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage, The New York Times Book Review, Aug. 15, 1999.^[30]

• “Shadow of Auschwitz on Primo Levi's Life,” The New York Times, Nov. 26, 1988.^[31]

• “For Raymond Carver, a Lifetime of Storytelling,” The New York Times, May 31, 1988.^[32]

• “Raymond Carver, Writer and Poet of the Working Poor, Dies at 50,” The New York Times, Aug. 2. 1988.^[33]

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