As the quotations that follow show, Follett was generally compared favourably with Fowler, doing for Americans, as it were, what Fowler had done for the writer of British English.
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This came from a group of writers and teachers of English: Carlos Baker, Frederick W. Dupee, Dudley Fitts, James D. Hart, Phyllis McGinley and Lionel Trilling.
Follett's Modern American Usage (1966), a guide for careful writers of American English
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Born at Topham, he was a younger son of Benjamin Follett and his wife Ann Webb, daughter of John Webb.
Bryan A. Garner (born November 17, 1958, in Lubbock, Texas) is a U.S. lawyer, lexicographer, and teacher who has written several books about English usage and style, including Garner's Modern American Usage and Elements of Legal Style.
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As a grammarian, Garner has written books on general English usage, including Garner's Modern American Usage.
Follett joined the Science Museum in 1937 as an Assistant Keeper, when Colonel E. E. B. Mackintosh was the Director.
Other critics, from John Simon to William Safire to Bill Walsh to Barbara Wallraff, have praised the book's clear, simple, and nuanced guidance.
Follett's website states that his inspiration for the story came from Leo Marks, a former Special Operations Executive employee, who wrote a brief account in his book, Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's Story 1941-1945 about two young Danes who found a derelict de Havilland Hornet Moth biplane, repaired it, and flew it to Britain.
Garner's Modern American Usage (3rd edition, 2009), a guide for careful writers of American English originally published (1st edition 1998) as A Dictionary of Modern American Usage of which an abridged form was published in 2000 by the Oxford University Press with the title The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style.
The child of court reporter, Aubrey Follett, an Anglican and his wife, Judith, a Roman Catholic from an intellectual family, Follett was born in Sydney, New South Wales in 1948, and moved with her family to Canberra in 1952 where she was educated at Canberra Catholic Girls' High School.
A statue of Follett executed by William Behnes was erected by subscription in Westminster Abbey.
Zachary "Zack" Follett (born July 3, 1987, in Clovis, California) is an American football linebacker who retired in 2011 due to a neck injury.