Becoming Shakespeare

The Unlikely Afterlife That Turned a Provincial Playwright into the Bard

2007

Die For Me

2002

Pieces of Death

1982

Samuel Johnson's Insults

A Compendium of Snubs, Sneers, Slights and Effronteries from the Eighteenth-Century Master

2004

Speak for the Dead

1984

The Dead Never Forget

1982

The English Language

A User's Guide

2007

The Lexicographer's Dilemma

The Evolution of 'Proper' English, from Shakespeare to South Park

2009

The Missing and The Dead

2014

Truth or Die

1985

Wake Up and Die

1984

Yesterday is Dead

1985

You Could Look It Up

The Reference Shelf from Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia

2015