title: June Casagrande
text: # June Casagrande
  
  June Casagrande (born 1966) is an American writer who specializes in English grammar and language usage. She writes a syndicated column on language called "A Word Please", and is the author of five books; her 2018 The Joy of Syntax was described as "a succinct and mercifully lucid summing-up of the basics" of grammar by copy editor John McIntyre.
  
  ## Publications
  
  * Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies (2006)
  * Mortal Syntax (2008)
  * It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences (2010)
  * The Best Punctuation Book, Period (2014)
  * The Joy of Syntax (2018)
  