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• Winner of Saroyan Writing Prize (Nonfiction) 2014

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.. . a nail-biting intellectual and cultural adventure. --The Times UK

... a nail-biting intellectual and cultural adventure. --The Times UK [Fox] ... has cracked it, fashioning an intellectual puzzle into an engrossing detective story of driven personalities, hidden clues, perseverance and intuition. In the process, she has uncovered a remarkable woman who had been buried by history. --Sunday Times UK As with any good detective story, there's a driving narrative behind the puzzle, peopled by solitary sleuths. --The Guardian US Deft, sharply written ... Fox's account runs with the pace and tension of a detective story - and has much to say about language and writing systems along the way. --The Guardian UK Fox's achievement here is to make this fascinating tale accessible to a broader audience. --Washington Post A fascinating yarn centered around an unlikely heroine. . . . Fox's deft explanations of the script-solving process allow readers to share in the mental detective work of cracking the lost language. --Publishers Weekly Margalit Fox describes the decipherment of Linear B in such lucid detail that any reader can follow the steps and participate in the thrill of discovery. --Stephen Mitchell, translator of Gilgamesh and the Iliad Fox recreates the emergence of one of history's most vexing puzzles--and then puts readers alongside the remarkable figures who, brilliantly, obsessively, and even tragically, devoted their lives to solving it. Forget the Da Vinci Code. This is the real thing. --Toby Lester, author of Da Vinci's Ghost Fox is a talented storyteller, and she creates an atmosphere of almost nail-biting suspense. . . . This one deserves shelf space along such classics of the genre as Simon Singh's The Code Book. --Booklist (starred review)

A fascinating yarn centered around an unlikely heroine. . . . Fox's deft explanations of the script-solving process allow readers to share in the mental detective work of cracking the lost language. --Publishers Weekly Fox's achievement here is to make this fascinating tale accessible to a broader audience. --Washington Post [Fox] ... has cracked it, fashioning an intellectual puzzle into an engrossing detective story of driven personalities, hidden clues, perseverance and intuition. In the process, she has uncovered a remarkable woman who had been buried by history. --Sunday Times UK Deft, sharply written ... Fox's account runs with the pace and tension of a detective story - and has much to say about language and writing systems along the way. --The Guardian UK As with any good detective story, there's a driving narrative behind the puzzle, peopled by solitary sleuths. --The Guardian US .. . a nail-biting intellectual and cultural adventure. --The Times UK Fox is a talented storyteller, and she creates an atmosphere of almost nail-biting suspense. . . . This one deserves shelf space along such classics of the genre as Simon Singh's The Code Book. --Booklist (starred review) Fox recreates the emergence of one of history's most vexing puzzles--and then puts readers alongside the remarkable figures who, brilliantly, obsessively, and even tragically, devoted their lives to solving it. Forget the Da Vinci Code. This is the real thing. --Toby Lester, author of Da Vinci's Ghost Margalit Fox describes the decipherment of Linear B in such lucid detail that any reader can follow the steps and participate in the thrill of discovery. --Stephen Mitchell, translator of Gilgamesh and the Iliad

Margalit Fox describes the decipherment of Linear B in such lucid detail that any reader can follow the steps and participate in the thrill of discovery. --Stephen Mitchell, translator of Gilgamesh and the Iliad

As with any good detective story, there's a driving narrative behind the puzzle, peopled by solitary sleuths. --The Guardian US

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An award-winning journalist trained as a linguist, Margalit Fox is a senior writer at the New York Times. She holds bachelor's and master's degrees in linguistics from Stony Brook University and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia Univer-sity. She lives in Manhattan with her husband, the writer and critic George Robinson.

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