Anu Garg

{{Infobox writer

| name = Anu Garg

| image = Anu-Garg.jpg

|birth_name = Anurag Garg

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1967|04|05}}

| birth_place = Meerut, India

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| occupation = Writer, speaker, columnist, software engineer

| genre = Non-fiction

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|website= {{URL|https://wordsmith.org/anu/}}

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Anu Garg (born April 5, 1967) is an American author and speaker. He is the founder of Wordsmith.org, an online community comprising aficionados of the English language from across 170 countries.[https://wordsmith.org/awad/ AWAD landing page]

name="nytimes">{{cite news |url =https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=technology&res=9F01E3DF1538F93BA15752C1A9649C8B63 |title = A Word of the Day Keeps Banality at Bay |accessdate = 2007-07-01 |date = 2002-11-28 |work = The New York Times | first=Katie | last=Hafner}} His books explore the joy of words. He has authored several books about language-related issues and written for magazines and newspapers. He was a columnist for MSN Encarta and Kahani magazine.{{cite web | url=http://kahani.com/each_contributors.php?id=7&contrib_type=W | title=Kahani | accessdate=2008-07-30 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080608025517/http://www.kahani.com/each_contributors.php?id=7&contrib_type=W | archive-date=2008-06-08 | url-status=dead }}

Life and education

Garg was born and grew up in Uttar Pradesh in India and only began to learn English at age 11. A graduate of Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, he holds a BTech in Computer Science.

name="nytimes"/>{{cite web|url=https://wordsmith.org/anu/resume.html|title= Anu Garg's Resume|publisher=Wordsmith.org|accessdate=2016-09-11}}

In 1992, he moved to the U.S. on a scholarship to study at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and three years later had earned his master's degree in computer science.{{cite news|date=2000-12-01|title=Log-o-phil-ia Is Addictive|work=Smithsonian|url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/log-o-phil-ia-is-addictive-69955129|accessdate=2016-09-11}} Garg became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2008 and he lives in the Seattle area.{{cite web|date=2008-11-02|title=Sign up to be a poll judge|url=http://www.seattlepi.com/default/article/Sign-up-to-be-a-poll-judge-1290225.php|publisher=Seattlepi.com|accessdate=2013-02-02}} He is a vegan.{{cite web|title=On Food: Wordsmith delves into the origins of food-related terms|date=23 January 2008|url=http://www.seattlepi.com/food/348319_foodwords23.html|publisher=Seattle Post-Intelligencer|accessdate=2008-03-19}}

Career

Garg has worked as a computer scientist at AT&T and other corporations. In 1994, while studying at Case Western, he founded Wordsmith.org.{{cite news |last=Hauser|first=Susan G.|url =https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1001466663243057240 |title = A Word a Day – Say, 'Gasconade' – Keeps Boredom at Bay |date = September 26, 2001 |work = The Wall Street Journal|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20020124074100/http://interactive.wsj.com/fr/emailthis/retrieve.cgi?id=SB1001466663243057240.djm|archivedate=January 24, 2002}} By 2024, approximately 400,000 people had subscribed to Wordsmith.org's "A Word A Day" email publication. He has authored several books as noted below.

= Bibliography =

{{cite book |first1=Anu |last1=Garg |first2=Stuti |last2=Garg |title=A Word A Day: A Romp Through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English |publisher=Wiley |year=2002 |isbn=978-0471230328}}
{{cite book |first=Anu |last=Garg |title=Another Word A Day : An All-new Romp through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English |publisher=Wiley |year=2005 |isbn=978-0471718451}}
{{cite book |first=Anu |last=Garg |title=The Dord, the Diglot, and an Avocado or Two: The Hidden Lives and Strange Origins of Common and Not-So-Common Words |publisher=Plume |year=2007 |isbn=978-0452288614 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/dorddiglotandavo0000garg }}