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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® culture―from living-room players to world champions. Beginning his career on a lark as a freelance contributor to SCRABBLE News , John D. Williams fell down a rabbit hole inhabited by gamers, geeks, and the grammar police. For twenty-five years, as the executive director of the National SCRABBLE Association, Williams served as the official spokesperson for the game, and as the middleman between legions of fanatical word-game fans and the official brand. Now Word Nerd takes readers inside the byzantine, dog-eat-dog world of top tournament players, creating a piquant (seven-letter word, 68 points!) work that is part pop-cultural history, part anthropological study. Indeed, what Christopher Guest did for the world of dog shows in his film Best in Show , Williams does for the world of competitive word games in this funny and perfectly observed memoir. As readers will discover, Word Nerd explores anagrams, palindromes, the highest-scoring SCRABBLE plays of all time, the birth of the World

Who reads Word Nerd : Dispatches from the Games, Grammar, and Geek Underground?

Author

John D. Williams, Jr

Publisher

Liverlight Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780871407733

Category

humor

Subjects

Sports, Anthropology, Fiction

Rating

3.15 / 5 (151 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14