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Morris Berman
Mberman@flash.net
http://www.flash.net/~mberman

Morris Berman runs DC Writing Services, a writing and editing service with clients around and outside the United States. They include government agencies, corporations, nonprofit organizations and individuals.

Some of his favorite working hours are spent teaching editing. He teaches several workshops, including Revising and Editing Your Own Writing, Intensive Introduction to Copyediting and Advanced Editing, at EEI Communications.

He occasionally works as a substantive editor for the State University of New York Press and as a copyeditor for Georgetown University Press.

Before moving to Washington, D.C., he taught nonfiction writing at the University of Washington and served as director of the Seattle Writers' Guild.

A cultural historian and social critic, he has taught at several European and American universities and has lectured internationally. New York Times Book Review named his Twilight of American Culture (W. W. Norton, 2000) a "Notable Book." Wandering God: A Study in Nomadic Spirituality, the last book in his trilogy on the evolution of human consciousness, also appeared in 2000.

He teaches part time in the Master of Liberal Arts Program at the Johns Hopkins University.

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