Willard Richardson Espy
Willard Richardson Espy (Olympiae Vasingtoniae die 11 Decembris 1910; mortuus Manhatae Novi Eboraci die 20 Februarii 1999) fuit editor, philologus, scriptor, poeta, et scriptor historiae locorum Americanus. Qui Oysterville in oppidulo maritimo Vasingtoniae educatus, Universitatem Redlands in California frequentavit antequam editor Novi Eboraci factus est, commentariorum et ephemerorum auctor, qui operam Reader's Digest, The New Yorker, Punch, aliisque periodicis populo gratis dedit.

Annis 1960 libros de philologia edere coepit, cum collectionibus poematum, et inter notissimos commentatores de ludo verborum sui temporis numeratus est. Anno 1977, Oysterville: Roads to Grandpa's Village ('Oyserville: Viae ad avi pagum'), mythistoriam semi-autobiographicam optime venumdatam protulit,  hereditatem suae familiae in civitate Oysterville tractans. In Valetudinario Novi Eboraci Manhatae anno 1999 mortuus, corpus in Coemeterio Oystervillensi sepultum est.

Eius poemata levia operibus Ludovici Carroll, W. S. Gilbert, Ogden Nash, et Cole Porter aequiparata sunt.

Maiora opera
The Game of Words (1971) (ISBN 0-7234-0173-X)
Oysterville: Roads to Grandpa's Village (1976) (ISBN|0-517-52196-2)
The Game of Words (1972) (ISBN 0-448-01196-4)
Omak Me Yours Tonight, or, Ilwaco million miles for one of your smiles: A Ballard of Washington State (1973) (ISBN 0-9634294-1-8)
An Almanac of Words at Play (1975) (ISBN 0-517-52463-5)
The Life and Works of Mr. Anonymous (1977) (ISBN 0-380-45047-X)
O Thou Improper, Thou Uncommon Noun (1978) (ISBN 0-517-53511-4)
Say it My Way: How to avoid certain pitfalls of spoken English together with a decidedly informal history of how our language rose (or fell) (1980) (ISBN 0-14-005733-1)
Another Almanac of Words at Play (1981) (ISBN 0-233-97288-9)
The Wars of the Words (1980)
A Children's Almanac of Words at Play (1982) (ISBN 0-340-34852-6)
Have A Word on Me: A Celebration of Language (1984) (ISBN 0-671-25255-0)
Espygrams: Anagram Verse (1982) (ISBN 0-517-54598-5)
Word Puzzles: Anagrams from America's Favorite Logophile (1983) ({SBN 0-934878-31-5)
The Garden of Eloquence: A Rhetorical Bestiary (1983) (ISBN 0-06-181256-0)
Espygrams II: 80 New Anagram Verses (1984) (ISBN 0-517-54757-0)
Words to Rhyme With (1986) (ISBN 0-8160-4313-2)
The Word's Gotten Out (1989) (ISBN 0-517-07940-2)
Skullduggery on Shoalwater Bay (1998)
The Best of An Almanac of Words at Play (1999) (ISBN 0-87779-145-7)

Notae

Bibliographia
Espy, Willard R. (1977) 1992. Oysterville: Roads to Grandpa's Village. University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0-517-52196-0. Archivum.
Nilsen, Alleen, et Don Nilsen. 2008. "Literature and humor." In The Primer of Humor Research, ed. Victor Raskin, 243–80. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-018616-1. 
Thomas, Robert McG., Jr. 1999. "Willard Espy, Who Delighted in Wordplay, Is Dead at 88." The New York Times, 25 Februarii 1999.

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De Willardo Richardson Espy apud WorldCat

Alumni Universitatis Redlands
Auctores Anglici
Autobiographi Civitatum Foederatarum
Editores
Ephemeridographi
Humoristae Civitatum Foederatarum
Incolae Novi Eboraci
Incolae Vasingtoniae civitatis
Philologi Civitatum Foederatarum
Poetae Civitatum Foederatarum
Scriptores Civitatum Foederatarum
Scriptores mythistoriarum Civitatum Foederatarum