Geoffrey Nunberg
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Radio: Bio of Geoffrey Nunberg
October 8, 2006
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Geoffrey Nunberg is the author of "Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show." He is an adjunct full professor at UC Berkeley's School of Information, a researcher at the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University, and a consulting professor in the Stanford Department of Linguistics. He is also chair of the usage panel of the American Heritage Dictionary.
Since 1989, he has done a regular language feature on NPR's "Fresh Air," and more recently has done regular features about language and topical issues for the New York Times' "Week in Review." He has written on language, culture, and information technology for The Atlantic, The American Prospect, Forbes ASAP, Town and Country, Fortune, and American Lawyer, and for newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the San Jose Mercury News, and the San Francisco Chronicle. For his popular writing on language, Nunberg was awarded the Linguistic Society of America's Language and the Public Interest Award in 2001. The author of The "Way We Talk Now" (Houghton Mifflin, 2001), and "Going Nucular," (PublicAffairs, 2004), Nunberg lives in San Francisco.
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