- Richard Dowis
Richard Dowis (born 1930) is a writer and president of the
Society for the Preservation of English Language and Literature (SPELL). ThisWaleska, Georgia resident authored "The Lost Art of the Great Speech " (1999, ISBN 0-8144-7054-8), atreatise forspeechwriter s. Dowis, along withRichard Lederer , authored "Sleeping Dogs Don't Lay (and that's no lie) " (1999, ISBN 0-312-26394-5), as well as "" (1995, ISBN 0-671-52670-7) — which outlines the proper use ofgrammar ,punctuation ,spelling , and style in theEnglish language .
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