By many accounts, Mr. Walsh stood at the zenith of his profession. (The Washington Post)Mary Norris, the recently retired New Yorker magazine copy editor and author of “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen,” called Mr. Walsh “that rare thing: a celebrity copy editor . Mr. Walsh relished playing the part of a curmudgeon, writing from the perspective of “some past-his-prime newspaper guy . He regarded rules as sometimes there to be broken — depending, of course, on the judgment and tolerance of a copy editor. He rolled his eyes at silly redundancies (“Armed gunmen: They’re the worst kind”) and explained the utility, for a copy editor, of being well read.

Source: Washington Post March 15, 2017 20:46 UTC