Roy Peter Clark

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<DIV><B>Roy Peter Clark</B> is senior scholar at the Poynter Institute, one of the most prestigious schools for journalists in the world. He has taught writing at every level -- from schoolchildren to Pulitzer Prize-winning authors -- for more than forty years. <br><br> A writer who teaches and a teacher who writes, he has authored or edited nineteen books on writing and journalism, including <I>The Art of X-Ray Reading</I>, <I>How to Write Short</I>, <I>Writing Tools</I>, <I>The Glamour of Grammar</I>, and <I>Help! for Writers</I>. He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he is considered a garage-band legend.</DIV>