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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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
Harcourt Butler Technical University (HBTU), formerly Harcourt Butler Technological Institute (HBTI), is a historical STEM college, currently operating as a technical state-university, and is located in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, northern India. ...
, he holds a BTech in Computer Science.Case Western Reserve University
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in Cleveland
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and three years later had earned his master's degree in computer science
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.Seattle
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area.vegan
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Career
Garg has worked as a computer scientist
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Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation. Although computer scientists can also focus their work and research on ...
at AT&T
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and other corporations. In 1994, while studying at Case Western, he founded Wordsmith.org.[ He has authored several books as noted below.
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See also
* List of Indian writers
This is a list of notable writers who come from India
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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