Interview on WNYC’s “The Leonard Lopate Show” about the forensic linguistics that helped uncover J.K. Rowling’s pseudonymous authorship. (July 23, 2103)
Ben Zimmer talks about the surprising linguistic science behind the revelation that J.K. Rowling wrote the crime novel The Cuckoo’s Calling under a pen name. Zimmer is the Wall Street Journal language columnist and executive producer of Vocabulary.com.
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