
Culture Shock! Chicago
2007
First Published
3.09
Average Rating
270
Number of Pages
Book by Hargraves, Orin
Avg Rating
3.09
Number of Ratings
11
5 STARS
9%
4 STARS
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3 STARS
64%
2 STARS
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1 STARS
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Orin Hargraves
Author · 7 books
Orin Hargraves is a native and current resident of Colorado. He graduated from the University of Chicago (BA with Honors) in 1977. He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco in the 1980s. He is the author of three guidebooks in the Culture Shock! series: Morocco, London, and Chicago. He began his career in lexicography while living in London in the early 1990s. He has since written numerous articles and books about language, as well as contributing to dozens of dictionaries from publishers internationally. At present he lives in Niwot, Colorado and teaches writing at CU-Boulder. He is past president of the Dictionary Society of North America. He writes the monthly "Language Lounge" column for VisualThesaurus.com. His fiction is available on Amazon Kindle.