Editing Allen Walker Read (section)

== Personal life ==
A colleague described Read as "never a snob, never old-fashioned", and wrote that Read embraced language in all its multifariousness, opining that "language is culture itself."<ref name=":3" /> He married Charlotte Schuchardt, director of the [[Institute of General Semantics]], in 1953. The couple tended to combine academic conferences with opportunities for hiking and mountain climbing.<ref name=":3" /> They had no children, and remained together until she died on 15 July 2002.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> Read died in New York City on 16 October 2002.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" />