SHAUN USHER
Professional letter nerd. Est. 1978.
AUTHOR of
Letters of Note
Since its birth in 2009, the Letters of Note website has been visited over 100 million times. In 2013, the first Letters of Note book was published to wide acclaim and became a bestseller. As of 2021, there are fourteen volumes in the Letters of Note series.
PRODUCER at
Letters Live
Hailed in The Observer as “the best letters in the world read by the best voices,” Letters Live had its premiere at The Tabernacle in west London in December 2013. Since then it has been staged over sixty times, including performances in New York, Venice, Brixton Prison, Los Angeles, Edinburgh, Hay Festival, Wilderness Festival and in the Calais Jungle.
CREATOR OF
Diaries of Note
Launched on 1st January 2023, Diaries of Note is a daily celebration of the diary and a regular opportunity to see how people have attempted to memorialise and make sense of their lives throughout the ages, with each entry published on the same day and month that it was originally written.
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