Books By George P Garrett Jr., O. B. Hardison, Jane R. Gelfman - Author

George Garrett (June 11, 1929 - May 25, 2008) is the author of 34 books. He served as the Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia and has been honored with many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Ford Foundation Grant, the T. S. Eliot Award, the Rome Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction. He worked as a book reviewer and screenwriter, and taught at Cambridge University and, for many years, at the University of Virginia.