I just found a cool page about Richard Mitchell, the brilliant late New Jersey professor who perpetrated The Underground Grammarian. Not only did I dedicate my first novel to him; the Grammarian section of Radio Free Mike is the oldest part of this site. It dates from 1997, long before "blog" was a word. If you follow that first link you'll find a picture of Mitchell at home with his printing press, which he replaced with a Macintosh in the 1980s. If he'd kept on publishing his ferocious little sheet beyond 1991, he might have been a blogger. But age, and diabetes, caught up with him.
posted by Michael Scott Moore |
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