Charlton Grant Laird (1901–1984) was an American linguist, lexicographer, novelist, and essayist.
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.
Laird wrote many other works of non-fiction and fiction, including two novels.
He also published literary criticism, was a university instructor, and a leading expert and scholar on the life and work of Western novelist (and fellow Nevada writer) Walter Van Tilburg Clark.
[3] Charlton Laird was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame in 1990.