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.
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/ref> 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.
Life and education
Garg was born and grew up in Uttar Pradesh
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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.
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
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. Garg became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2008 and he lives in the Seattle
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area. He is a vegan.
Career
Garg has worked as a computer scientist
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at AT&T
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and other corporations. In 1994, while studying at Case Western, he founded Wordsmith.org. 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.
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See also
* List of Indian writers
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1967 births
Living people
American computer scientists
American information and reference writers
Case Western Reserve University alumni
Indian computer scientists
Indian emigrants to the United States
People from Woodinville, Washington
Naturalized citizens of the United States
People from Meerut
Scientists from Uttar Pradesh
Indian popular science writers
American male writers of Indian descent
American male non-fiction writers
Harcourt Butler Technical University alumni