The American Author Who Fell in Love With the Greek Language
Credit: Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia/Illustration: Greek Reporter
Mary Norris is an American author who learned the Greek language during her twenty-four-year career at the famous ”
New Yorker’‘ magazine.
In 2019 she published her new book ”Greek to Me – Adventures of the Comma Queen,” where she narrates the extraordinary adventure she undertook when she decided to learn the Greek language.
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‘The New Yorker’‘ in the late 1970s.
Her father, she explains, was a pragmatic man and did not want her studying ”dead languages” such as Latin or Ancient Greek.