Henry HITCHINGS wins the 2007/8 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize

LEXICAL WIZARD Henry Hitchings has won the 2007/8 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English (John Murray/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008), his gripping account of the evolution of English vocabulary over the centuries. It is the first nonfiction work to take the prize.