Education
Fogarty graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Washington in Seattle and an Master of Surgery in biology from Stanford University.
Fogarty graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Washington in Seattle and an Master of Surgery in biology from Stanford University.
In addition to studying, her college years also saw the birth of her career as an entrepreneur. Mignon revealed that she and a college roommate started their first business making and selling hair accessories. Mignon"s career has focused on science and writing.
She has been the editor-in-chief and producer for the LongerLiving website before becoming the editorial director of CaregiverZone.
Later, she became the editorial director and executive producer of GeneticHealth.com. She was the producer and co-host of the podcast Absolute Science.
In January 2007, Cable News Network featured Fogarty and her podcast, calling her "a quick and dirty success."
Mignon Fogarty appeared on the March 26, 2007 episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show as a grammar expert. She was on the show to answer a viewer"s question about the use of possessive apostrophes.
The viewer thought a previous show should have been titled "Oprah"s and Gayle"s Big Adventure," but Fogarty confirmed that "Oprah and Gayle"s Big Adventure" was a correct use of compound possession.
She went on to discuss several other common grammar errors, including "Affect versus Effect" and "Who versus Whom."
On August 22, 2013, Fogarty released Grammar People’s, a grammar-based word matching game for the iPad. In August 2009, Spark, a radio program on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, announced that Fogarty would be joining their team for a special series.
On July 7, 2011, Fogarty was interviewed by Neal Conan for the National Public Radio program Talk of the Nation.
In the 17-minute segment, Fogarty discussed a number of examples from her 2011 book, Grammar Girl"s 101 Misused Words You"ll Never Confuse Again (New York: Street Martin"s Griffin, 2011), and answered listeners" questions. In 2012, Fogarty began doing regular segments about language on KPCC on Southern California Public
On his Discovery Science Channel series lieutenant"s All Geek to Maine, New York Times technology writer David Pogue dressed up as Fogarty—hair, glasses, and all—and lip-synched one of her actual podcasts as part of a "visual demonstration" of what podcasts were in that program"s episode about the iPod.
He also gave the same treatment to Grammar Girl"s fellow Quick and Dirty Tips podcaster Legal Lad.