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{{short description|American author and speaker (born 1967)}}
{{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]]
| death_date =
| death_place =
| occupation = Writer, speaker, columnist, software engineer
| genre = [[Non-fiction]]
| notableworks =
|website= {{URL|https://wordsmith.org/anu/}}
}}
'''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.<ref name=AWAD>[https://wordsmith.org/awad/ AWAD landing page]</ref><ref
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}}</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.<ref name="kahani">{{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 }}</ref>
==Life and education==
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.<ref
name="nytimes"/><ref name="wordsmith">{{cite web|url=https://wordsmith.org/anu/resume.html|title= Anu Garg's Resume|publisher=Wordsmith.org|accessdate=2016-09-11}}</ref>
In 1992, he moved to the US on a scholarship to study at [[Case Western Reserve University]] in [[Cleveland]] and three years later had earned a master's degree in [[computer science]].<ref name="smith">{{cite news|date=2000-12-01|title=Log-o-phil-ia Is Addictive|work=[[Smithsonian (magazine)|Smithsonian]]|url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/log-o-phil-ia-is-addictive-69955129|accessdate=2016-09-11}}</ref> Garg became a naturalized US citizen in 2008 and now  lives in the [[Seattle, Washington|Seattle]] area.<ref name="seat">{{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}}</ref> He is a [[vegan]].<ref name="seattlepi">{{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}}</ref>
==Career==
Garg has worked as a [[computer scientist]] at [[AT&T Corporation|AT&T]] and other corporations. In 1994, while studying at Case Western, he founded Wordsmith.org.<ref>{{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}}</ref> At 2024, around 400,000 people subscribe to Wordsmith.org's "A Word A Day" email list.<ref name=AWAD/>
==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 }}
==See also==
* [[List of Indian writers]]
==References==
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==External links==
*{{official website|https://wordsmith.org/anu/}}
*{{wikiquote-inline|Anu Garg}}
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[[Category:People from Woodinville, Washington]]
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[[Category:People from Meerut]]
[[Category:Scientists from Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Indian popular science writers]]
[[Category:American male writers of Indian descent]]
[[Category:American male non-fiction writers]]
[[Category:Harcourt Butler Technical University alumni]]