John McWhorter

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1. John McWhorter

   Author of The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language, Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care, Authentically Black

2. Steven Pinker

   Author of The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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3. David Crystal

   Author of The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, The Stories of English

4. Thomas Sowell

   Author of A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation As a Basis for Social Policy, The Quest for Cosmic Justice

5. Simon Winchester

   Author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology, The Meaning of Everything

6. Nicholas Ostler

   Author of Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World, Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin, The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel

7. Shelby Steele

   Author of The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In America, White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era, A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America

8. Guy Deutscher

   Author of The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages

9. Mark Abley

   Author of Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages

10. Kenneth W. Harl

    Author of The Era of the Crusades, Great Ancient Civilizations of Asia Minor, Origins of Great Ancient Civilizations
    All: (1 member)

11. Mark C. Baker

    Author of The Atoms of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules of Grammar

12. Royce Flippin

    Author of The Best American Political Writing 2004, The Best American Political Writing 2005, The Best American Political Writing 2002

13. Christine Kenneally

    Author of The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language

14. David Sacks

    Author of Language Visible

15. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

    Author of Colored People: A Memoir, The Future of the Race, America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans
    All: (1 member)

16. Bill Bryson

    Author of The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way, The Best American Travel Writing 2000

17. Henry Petroski

    Author of The Book on the Bookshelf, Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design

18. John Man

    Author of Alpha Beta: How 26 Letters Shaped the Western World

19. Dinesh D'Souza

    Author of Illiberal Education, The End of Racism

20. Robert McCrum

    Author of The Story of English