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1. Chicago Editorial Staff

   Author of The Chicago Manual of Style

2. Arthur Plotnik

   Author of Elements of Editing

3. Bill Walsh

   Author of Lapsing Into a Comma: A Curmudgeon's Guide to the Many Things That Can Go Wrong in Print—and How to Avoid Them

4. William Strunk

   Author of The Elements of Style

5. Maurice Samuel

   Author of Prince of the Ghetto, Certain people of the Book, Blood accusation: The strange history of the Beiliss case

6. American Heritage

   Author of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language New College Edition

7. Amy Einsohn

   Author of The Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications

8. The New York Public Library

   Author of The New York Public Library Desk Reference

9. Joseph Gibaldi

   Author of MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers

10. William Zinsser

    Author of On Writing Well

11. Bob Woodward

    Author of All the President's Men, Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987, Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate

12. John Bartlett

    Author of Familiar Quotations

13. Karen Elizabeth Gordon

    Author of The Transitive Vampire

14. Margaret Shertzer

    Author of Elements of Grammar

15. American Psychological Association

    Author of Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association

16. Simon Noveck

    Author of Contemporary Jewish thought; a reader, Great Jewish personalities in modern times

17. Patricia T. O'Conner

    Author of Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English

18. H. W. Fowler

    Author of Fowler’s Modern English Usage

19. Kate L. Turabian

    Author of A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations

20. David Ben-Gurion

    Author of The Jews in their land, Rebirth and destiny of Israel;