J K Rowling

Linguistics, Forensics, and J. K. Rowling

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jul 22, 2013

Ben Zimmer talks about the surprising linguistic science behind the revelation that J.K. Rowling wrote the crime novel The Cuckoo's Calling under a pen name. Zimmer is the Wall Street Journal language columnist and executive producer of Vocabulary.com.

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