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Masters Creative Writing University of Iowa
Bachelors English Princeton University

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According to Wikipedia, Charlton Grant Laird was an American linguist, lexicographer, novelist, and essayist. Laird created the 1971 edition of the Webster's New World Thesaurus that became the standardized edition still used today. During his lifetime, he was probably best known for his language studies: books, textbooks, and reference works elucidating the English language for the layman along with his numerous contributions to dictionaries and thesauruses.

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Webster's New World Thesaurus (1971) (42)
Character and Growth of the Manuel des Pechiez (1946) (28)
Language in America (1970) (20)
The Legacy of language : a tribute to Charlton Laird (1987) (12)
Webster's New World dictionary of the American language . Webster's New World thesaurus (1970) (5)
Language and culture (1974) (4)
Etymology, Anglo-Saxon, and Noah Webster (1946) (4)
Reading about language (1971) (4)
Collins New World thesaurus (1979) (3)
English as language : backgrounds, development, usage (1961) (3)
Modern English Rhetoric and Handbook (1988) (2)
Tragedy and Irony in Knickerbocker's History (1940) (1)
West of the river (1953) (1)
Freshman English during the Flood (1956) (1)
Structural Linguistics: Notes for a Devil's Advocate (1962) (1)
The Tree of Language (1960) (1)
The Little Brown Church (1)
A Course in Modern English (1960) (1)
Down Giantwife: The Uses of Etymology. (1970) (1)
Literature for Defense (1942) (1)
Laird's promptory : a dictionary of synonyms and antonyms and specific equivalents (1948) (1)
The word : a look at the vocabulary of English (1981) (1)
The world through literature (1951) (0)
And gladly teche (1970) (0)
A Fourteenth Century Scribe (1940) (0)
The Parts, or Vestigial Remnants, of Speech (1957) (0)
A Footnote to the Footnote: Science, Linguistics, and the Kwakiutl Grammarian (1958) (0)
West of the river / by Charlton Laird (1957) (0)
The "Literati" at Iowa in the Twenties (1982) (0)
Grammar Again: Reply (1963) (0)
And Gladly Teche: Notes on Instructing the Natives in the Native Tongue (1970) (0)
A writer's handbook (1964) (0)
A Simpleminded Look at Grammar and Language (1969) (0)
Words and Their Waywardness in Present-Day Speech. (1971) (0)
Webster's New world thesaurus : expanded and updated for the 1990's! (1990) (0)
Five New Gretham Sermons and the Middle English Mirrur (1942) (0)
Palatinus Latinus 1970, a Composite Manuscript (1943) (0)
Seen but not Heard: Language Learning and Language Teaching. (1968) (0)
Handbook for English language and composition (1964) (0)
Aristotle's Katharsis in an Impersonal World (1941) (0)
The Importance of being a Literary Orphan (1943) (0)
Modern English reader (1970) (0)
the Miracle of Language/ Charlton Laird (1957) (0)
A Thesaurus on a New Plan (1949) (0)
A Nonhuman Being Can Learn Language. (1972) (0)
REVISING AND RE-EDITING A GUIDE FOR COMPARATIVE AND GENERAL LITERATURE. (1966) (0)
Thinking about language (1961) (0)
Language: What To Do about a Drop-in. (1969) (0)
You and your language (1974) (0)
Writing modern English (1973) (0)
Linguistic Approach to the Study of the American Language. (1967) (0)
Language Power for Youth. Cleveland A. Thomas (1955) (0)

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