Howard Richler

Howard Richler was born in Montreal in 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 to 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. His books include The Dead Sea Scroll Palindromes, Take My Words, A Bawdy Language, and Global Mother Tongue.