Grady Ward

author

Grady Ward

b. 1951

Best known for creating the huge public-domain Moby Project, this writer and programmer has moved between language tools, software, and fiction. His career blends a love of words with a deep technical background.

6 Audiobooks

Moby Word Lists

by Grady Ward

Moby Thesaurus List

by Grady Ward

Moby Multiple Language Lists of Common Words

by Grady Ward

Moby Part of Speech List

by Grady Ward

Moby Hyphenation List

by Grady Ward

Moby Pronunciation List

by Grady Ward

About the author

Born in 1951, Grady Ward is an American writer and computer programmer best known for the Moby Project, a large public-domain collection of English-language lexical resources that includes the well-known Moby Thesaurus.

Before releasing that work, he was a senior systems programmer at Apple Computer. His background in both language and computing helped shape a career that has ranged from building reference tools to writing fiction, including the technothriller The Celestial Instruction.

Ward is also known for his long-running public criticism of Scientology and for legal conflicts connected to that activism, which brought him wider attention beyond programming and publishing circles.