Sometimes know as 'The Punctuation Lady' (for her book   ), Lynne Truss speaks in this interview with 's Claudia Cragg.

She is a British writer and journalist who started out as a literary editor with a blue pencil and then got sidetracked.

Also the author of three novels, the latest of which is , Truss is now working on a sequel. 

She is the writer of numerous radio comedy dramas and spent six years as critic for . This was followed by four (she says, rather peculiar) years as a sports columnist for the same newspaper.

She won for her work for Women's Journal.

Lynne Truss also hosted a popular BBC Radio series about punctuation. She is a familiar voice on BBC Radio 4 and lives in Brighton, England.