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Charlton Grant Laird (1901–1984) was an American linguist , lexicographer , novelist, and essayist. Laird created the 1971 edition of the Webster's New World ThesaurusEnglish language for the layman along with his numerous contributions to dictionaries and thesauruses .
Laird wrote many other works of non-fiction and fiction, including two novels. He also published literary criticism, was a university instructor, and a leading expert and scholar on the life and work of Western novelist (and fellow Nevada writer) Walter Van Tilburg Clark . (see "Selected bibliography" below)
According to Webster's New World Thesaurus , it was Laird who created this "eminently successful work":
Professor Laird's thesaurus, first published in 1971 and revised in 1985 and 1997, has over the years proved itself to be the most usable and useful thesaurus available.[1]
Laird was born in Nashua, Iowa and received his undergraduate education at the University of Iowa and went on to Columbia , Stanford , and Yale . He taught at Drake University and at the University of Nevada at Reno [2] [3]
Charlton Laird was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame in 1990.[4]
Selected bibliography [ edit ]
Novels
Thunder on the River . Boston: Little, Brown, 1949.
West of the River . Boston: Little, Brown, 1953.
Nonfiction
The Miracle of Language . The World Publishing Company, 1953.
A Basic Course in Modern English . Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1963. (Co-authors: Robert M. Gorrell and Raymond J. Pflug)
Walter Van Tilburg Clark . Reno: Black Rock Press, 1972.
Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Critiques . Reno, NV: Univ. of Nevada Press, 1983.
Collins New World Thesaurus . London: Collins, 1979. new ed.
References [ edit ]
^ "Charlton Grant Laird Papers at the University of Nevada" . Archived from the original on 2019-12-15. Retrieved 2010-11-29 .
^ "Nevada Writers Hall of Fame: Charlton Laird" . University of Nevada, Reno . Archived from the original on 4 October 2017. Retrieved 30 November 2017 .
External links [ edit ]
Charlton Laird Paper housed in the Special Collections Department at the University of Iowa Libraries.
A Guide to the Charlton Laird Papers, AC 0284 . University Archive, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Reno.
Charlton Laird Papers, AC 0076 . University Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Reno.
Autobiographical manuscript for Charlton Laird, AC 0151 . University Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Reno.
Charlton Laird Homepage at the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame
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