Anu Garg

Anu Garg
Born Anurag Garg
(1967-04-05) April 5, 1967
Meerut, India
Occupation Writer, speaker, columnist, software engineer
Genre Non-fiction
Website
wordsmith.org/anu/

Anu Garg (born April 5, 1967) is an American author and speaker. He is also founder of Wordsmith.org, an online community comprising word lovers from an estimated 200 countries.[1] His books explore the joy of words. He has authored several books about language-related issues for magazines and newspapers. He was a columnist for MSN Encarta and Kahani magazine.[2]

Biography

Garg was born in rural India. His schooling took place under a mango tree, his classroom consisting of a few broken sticks of chalk and a blackboard made by painting a flat piece of wood with soot. The only language he knew was Hindi, and he did not see a library until college. Garg graduated from Harcourt Butler Technological Institute in Computer Science in 1988.[3] He lives in the Seattle area with his wife, Stuti and daughter, Ananya. Garg became a naturalized US citizen in 2008.[4] He is a vegan.[5]

Career

He started his career from United States to receive graduate studies in Computer Science at Case Western Reserve University,[6] and then worked as a computer scientist at AT&T and other corporations. He founded Wordsmith.org in 1994, during his graduate work.[7] In 2010, the number of subscribers to Wordsmith.org's "A Word A Day" email list reached one million.

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References

  1. Hafner, Katie (2002-11-28). "A Word of the Day Keeps Banality at Bay". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-07-01.
  2. "Kahani". Retrieved 2008-07-30.
  3. "Anu Garg's Resume". Wordsmith.org. Retrieved 2012-04-25.
  4. "Sign up to be a poll judge". Seattlepi.com. 2008-11-02. Retrieved 2013-02-02.
  5. "On Food: Wordsmith delves into the origins of food-related terms". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved 2008-03-19.
  6. "Log-o-phil-ia Is Addictive". Smithsonian. 2000-12-01. Archived from the original on 2007-07-03. Retrieved 2007-07-01.
  7. Hauser, Susan G. (September 26, 2001). "A Word a Day – Say, 'Gasconade' – Keeps Boredom at Bay". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on January 24, 2002.

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