| Wikipedia: Anu Garg |
| Anu Garg | |
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| Born | Anurag Garg |
| Occupation | Writer, Speaker, Columnist, Software engineer |
| Genres | non-fiction |
| Notable work(s) | The Dord, the Diglot, and an Avocado or Two: The Hidden Lives and Strange Origins of Common and Not-So-Common Words, A Word A Day: A Romp Through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words, Another Word a Day: An All-New Romp through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English |
Anu Garg (born April 5, 1967), an Indian-American author and speaker, is best known as the founder of Wordsmith.org, an online community comprising word lovers from an estimated 200 countries. His books explore the joy of words. He has authored A Word A Day: A Romp Through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words, Another Word a Day and The Dord, the Diglot, and an Avocado or Two: The Hidden Lives and Strange Origins of Common and Not-So-Common Words. He writes about language-related issues for magazines and newspapers and speaks internationally. He is a columnist for MSN Encarta[1] and Kahani magazine.[2]
He has been profiled in The New York Times,[3] USA Today,[4] Reader's Digest, The Wall Street Journal,[5] Smithsonian,[6] National Public Radio, and BBC, among others.
Biography
Garg was born in rural India. His school took place under the shade of a mango tree, where a few broken sticks of chalk and a blackboard made by painting a flat piece of wood with soot completed his classroom. The only language he knew was Hindi, and he did not see a library until he went to college.Anu Garg has graduated from H.B.T.I Kanpur in Computer Science engineering in the 1984-1988 batch[7].
He learned the English language and moved to the United States to study computer science at Case Western Reserve University, and then worked as a computer scientist at AT&T and other corporations. It was at graduate school in 1994 where he founded Wordsmith.org.
He lives in the Seattle area with his wife and daughter. He is a vegan.[8]
Footnotes
- ^ "MSN Encarta". http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/columns/?page=anuhome. Retrieved on 2008-07-30.
- ^ "Kahani". http://kahani.com/each_contributors.php?id=7&contrib_type=W. Retrieved on 2008-07-30.
- ^ "A Word of the Day Keeps Banality at Bay". The New York Times. 2002-11-28. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=technology&res=9F01E3DF1538F93BA15752C1A9649C8B63. Retrieved on 2007-07-01.
- ^ "He spread the words, one e-mail at a time". USA Today. 2003-01-02. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-01-02-email-book_x.htm. Retrieved on 2007-07-01.
- ^ "A Word a Day -- Say, 'Gasconade' -- Keeps Boredom at Bay". The Wall Street Journal. 2001-09-26. http://online.wsj.com/PA2VJBNA4R/article/SB1001466663243057240-search.html?KEYWORDS=anu+garg&COLLECTION=wsjie/6month. Retrieved on 2007-07-01.
- ^ "Log-o-phil-ia Is Addictive". Smithsonian. 2000-12-01. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/issues/2000/december/wordaday.php. Retrieved on 2007-07-01.
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- ^ "On Food: Wordsmith delves into the origins of food-related terms", Seattle Post-Intelligencer. URL last accessed on March 19, 2008.
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