Word Nerd: Dispatches from the Games, Grammar, and Geek Underground [Paperback]

Williams, the first and only executive director of the National Scrabble Association, joyfully and enthusiastically recounts his unlikely 25-year tenure as the official national spokesman for the world-famous word game. &Casual gamers will find this light read to be a fun escape, while avid grammarians and fellow word nerds will devour it in a single sitting.For Scrabble fansand they are everywhere, young and old, male and femalethis walk down memory lane with the former National Scrabble Association (NSA) executive director is informative, funny, anecdotal, and bittersweet&. [A]ficionados will treasure this book for its appendixes: offensive words; short Q, J, X, and Z words; Important Vowel Dumps: and more.In this zany, one-of-a-kind memoir, former executive director of the National SCRABBLE Association John D. Williams Jr. brings to life the obsessions, madness, and glory of the SCRABBLE? culturefrom living-room players to world champions.