Keith Houston
Keith Houston is the founder of the blog Shady Characters, where he writes about the unusual stories behind some well-known—and some rather more outlandish—marks of punctuation. By day, he writes medical visualization software. He is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh.
EMPIRE OF THE SUM: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator
W.W. Norton, 2023THE BOOK : A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
W.W. Norton, 2016SHADY CHARACTERS: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks
W.W. Norton, 2013FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY: A Natural History of Emoji
forthcoming from W.W. Norton