Anu Garg
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| Born | Anurag Garg (1967-04-05) April 5, 1967 (age 57) Meerut, India |
| Occupation | Writer, speaker, columnist, software engineer |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
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Anu Garg (born April 5, 1967) is an American author and speaker. He is also the founder of Wordsmith.org, an online community comprising aficionados of the English language from across 170 countries.[1][2] 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.[3]
Garg was born and grew up in Uttar Pradesh in India and only began to learn English at age 11. He graduated from Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, with a BTech in Computer Science.[2][4]
In 1992, he moved to the US on a scholarship to study at Case Western Reserve UniversityinCleveland and three years later had earned a master's degree in computer science.[5] Garg became a naturalized US citizen in 2008 and now lives in the Seattle area.[6] He is a vegan.[7]
Garg has worked as a computer scientistatAT&T and other corporations. In 1994, while studying at Case Western, he founded Wordsmith.org.[8] At 2024, around 400,000 people subscribe to Wordsmith.org's "A Word A Day" email list.[1]
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