Lester Kaufman

Lester Kaufman is the publisher of GrammarBook.com. A lifelong public servant, he first served as a teacher in the Peace Corps, and eventually he completed the final years of his federal career with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He married Jane Straus in1987. After his retirement from the EPA, Kaufman began assisting with the operation of Straus's fledgling website and helped edit previous editions of "The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation." Following Jane Straus's untimely passing in February 2011, Kaufman assumed management of GrammarBook.com, which features an informative and entertaining weekly newsletter that encourages readers to ask grammar questions and offer their views on the state of twenty-first-century English. This daily interaction with grammar aficionados worldwide has kept "The Blue Book" on the cutting edge of modern American English usage.