Semicolon : how a misunderstood punctuation mark can imoprove your writing, enrich your reading and even change your life

Semicolon By Cecelia Watson “Delightful” (The New Yorker): Martin Luther King Jr. and Herman Melville used it. George Orwell hated it. Learn how an unassuming punctuation mark became a grammatical battleground. “Essential reading for anyone who cares about language” (The Boston Globe). One punctuation mark encapsulates this thorny issue more clearly than any other. The semicolon. Hated by Stephen King, Hemingway, Vonnegut and Orwell, and loved by Herman Melville, Henry James and Rebecca Solnit, it is the most divisive punctuation mark in the English language, and many are too scared to go near it. But why? When is it effective? Have we been misusing it? Should we even care? 'Fascinating... I loved this book; I really did' David Crystal, Spectator A biography of a much misunderstood punctuation mark and a call to arms in favour of clear expression and against stifling grammar rules.