Lynne Truss (born 31 May 1955)[1] is an English author, journalist, novelist, and radio broadcaster and dramatist.

She champions correctness and aesthetics in the English language, which is the subject of her 2003 book, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation.

Besides her promotion of linguistic prescription and commentary on English grammar, Truss has written many radio plays, both comedic and dramatic.

She was educated at the Tiffin Girls' School and University College London, where she was awarded a first-class degree in English Language and Literature.

In August 2014, Truss was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue.