Larry Beason Larry Beason (Mobile, AL) is an award-winning professor and director of the English composition program at the University of South Alabama. He has written numerous academic articles and given presentations on rhetoric, grammar, business communicaion, teaching, and the English language. For McGraw-Hill, Beaton is the coauthor of The McGraw-Hill Handbook of English Grammar and Usage with Mark Lester and the author of Eyes Before Ease. Read More Read Less