Reviews of Richard Lederer's Work

Richard Lederer is the true King of Language Comedy. His Anguished English books are the funniest books I have ever read, and The Bride of Anguished English is the most delightful and hilarious of all!
-- Sidney Sheldon

If I had been given this book [Crazy English] to be read in high school or college while suffering through English classes, I would have grown up thinking of my own language as a magic moving sea of possibilities and not a corset for my mind. The final paragraph ought to be read in every English class in the land and the book ought to be set alongside The Elements of Style by Strunk and White as an equal classic.
-- Robert Fulghum

Richard Lederer's delight in the English language is itself delightful -- and contagious.
-- Edwin Newman

Richard Lederer's new book [The Miracle of Language] will remind many readers of a good after-dinner speech. It combines one part meat and potatoes with four parts salad and dessert. It rests easily upon the reader's eye. Lederer is a serious teacher of English who does not take himself too seriously.
-- James J. Kilpatrick

Richard Lederer has done it again -- another delightful, witty, and hugely absorbing celebration of the English language. Is there no stopping the man?
-- Bill Bryson

Nowadays, plenty of writers tackle the subject of our national tongue, but Richard Lederer's explorations are especially engaging.
-- Philadelphia Inquirer

America's Wittiest Verbalist.
-- Book of the Month Club

The Wizard of Idiom. The first name in popular linguistics.
-- Denver Post

The Abbot of Absurdity
-- Boston Globe

Columnist Extraordinaire
-- The New Yorker

Someone should declare Richard Lederer a national treasure.
-- Richmond Times-Dispatch

Lederer beguiles and bedazzles.
-- Lost Angeles Times

America's Top Pun.
-- Chicago Tribune

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