Word Nerd

This memoir is authored by John D. Williams, who served for twenty-five years as the executive director of the National SCRABBLE Association. The book takes readers inside the world of top tournament players, creating a work that is part pop-cultural history and part anthropological study.

The content explores anagrams, palindromes, the highest-scoring SCRABBLE plays of all time, and the birth of the World SCRABBLE Championship. Williams introduces the gamers, geeks, and grammar police who inhabit the competitive word-game world. The aim is to provide a funny and perfectly observed look at what makes SCRABBLE players tick and the culture surrounding the game.