Stewart Kellerman (born December 13, 1941) is an American author, journalist, and blogger who has reported on wars in Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. A former editor at ''

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'' and foreign correspondent for

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, he has covered conflicts in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Bangladesh, Argentina, Uruguay, Israel, and the Arab world. Kellerman earned a bachelor's degree from

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in 1964 and was the 1972–73 Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the

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, where he focused on American policy with China and the Soviet Union. During his career with UPI, he wrote feature stories from the battle zones in addition to news dispatches. A feature written on Christmas Eve 1971, about a party for the children of South Vietnamese soldiers, became the foreword to Alan Dawson's book ''55 Days: The Fall of South Vietnam'' (1977). He has also written a comic novel about growing old in America, and has co-authored books and articles about the

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with his wife, the language commentator

Patricia T. O'Conner Patricia T. O'Conner (born February 19, 1949) is the author of five books about the English language. A former staff editor at ''The New York Times Book Review'', she has appeared regularly as a language commentator for WNYC and Iowa Public Radio. ...

. He has written book reviews and articles on cultural subjects for the Times. He and O'Conner write about language on The Grammarphobia Blog, where they have answered nearly 4,000 questions from readers since 2006.

Publications

Books

* ''Swan Song: A Novel'' (Rushwater Press, 2019). * ''Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language'', co-authored by O'Conner (Random House, 2010). * ''You Send Me: Getting It Right When You Write Online'', co-authored by O'Conner (Harcourt, 2002). * ''55 Days: The Fall of South Vietnam,'' by Alan Dawson. Foreword by Stewart Kellerman. (Prentice-Hall, 1977.)

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