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{{Infobox writer<br />
| name = Anu Garg<br />
| image = Anu-Garg.jpg<br />
|birth_name = Anurag Garg<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1967|04|05}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Meerut]], [[India]]<br />
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| occupation = Writer, speaker, columnist, software engineer<br />
| genre = [[Non-fiction]]<br />
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|website= {{URL|https://wordsmith.org/anu/}}<br />
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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 word lovers from an estimated 195 countries.<ref <br />
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><br />
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==Life and education==<br />
In 1988, Garg received a B.Tech. in Computer Science from [[Harcourt Butler Technological Institute]].<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><br />
He lives in the [[Seattle, Washington|Seattle]] area. In 1995, Garg received a Master's degree in [[Computer Science]] from [[Case Western Reserve University]], where he studied on a scholarship.<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.<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><br />
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==Career==<br />
He has worked as a [[computer scientist]] at [[AT&T Corporation|AT&T]] and other corporations. In 1994, during his studies at Case Western Reserve University, 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> In 2010, the number of subscribers to Wordsmith.org's "A Word A Day" email list reached one million.<br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
* {{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}}<br />
* {{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}}<br />
* {{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 }}<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[List of Indian writers]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{official website|https://wordsmith.org/anu/}}<br />
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