Author

Books by Richard A. Lanham

Richard A. Lanham is a Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he taught for thirty years. He is the author of numerous books on rhetoric and prose style, including A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms, Style: An Anti-Textbook, and The Economics of Attention. Revising Prose, first published in 1979 and updated in multiple editions, became one of the most widely assigned writing guides in American universities. Lanham's work draws on classical rhetoric to address contemporary prose problems in business, government, and academic writing.