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Birth— February 7, 1952
Raised—Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Education—B.A., Rutgers University; M.A., University of Vermont
Currently—lives in New York, New York


Mary Norris was raised in Cleveland, Ohio. She graduated from Rutgers University in 1974. She earned a Masters in English from the University of Vermont.

Norris joined the editorial staff at The New Yorker in 1978. She has been a query proofreader at the magazine since 1993, as well as a contributor to the magazine's "The Talk of the Town" column and newyorker.com.

Her first book, Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen was published in 2015. (From Wikipedia. Retrieved 11/17/2015.)