Howard was born in Montreal on November 15,1948. He graduated from Concordia University in 1969, and for three decades thereafter he toiled in the steel industry, first at Richler Steel Corporation until 1992, and then from 1993-1998 at Leroux Steel. In 1992, he started writing his weekly Speaking of Language in the Books Section of the Montreal Gazette, highlighting idiosyncrasies of the English language. He has written four books :The Dead Sea Scroll Palindromes, Take My Words, A Bawdy Language, and Global Mother Tongue.

Books by Howard Richler

Bawdy Language, A

Dead Sea Scroll Palindromes, The

Take My Words

Global Mother Tongue

Can I Have a Word With You

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