George Garrett
Novelist, Author
1929 – 2008
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Who was George Garrett?
George Palmer Garrett was an American poet and novelist. He was the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2002 to 2004. His novels include The Finished Man, Double Vision, and the Elizabethan Trilogy, composed of Death of the Fox, The Succession, and Entered from the Sun. He worked as a book reviewer and screenwriter, and taught at Cambridge University and, for many years, at the University of Virginia. He is the subject of critical books by R. H. W. Dillard, Casey Clabough, and Irving Malin.
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- Born
- Jun 11, 1929
Orlando - Also known as
- George Palmer Garrett
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, Princeton University
( - 1985) - Columbia University
(1948 - 1949) - The Hill School
- Sewanee, The University of the South
( - 1945)
- PhD, Princeton University
- Employment
- University of Virginia
- Lived in
- Charlottesville
( - 2008/05/25)
- Charlottesville
- Died
- May 25, 2008
Charlottesville
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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