Background
Garrett, George Palmer was born on June 11, 1929 in Orlando, Florida, United States. Son of George Palmer and Rosalie (Toomer) Garrett.
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Do Lord, Remember Me.
(Fictional Novel, Adult Fiction)
Fictional Novel, Adult Fiction
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The King Of Babylon Shall Not Come Against You
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Entered From the Sun First Edition Signed/inscribed By the Author
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Gray-burgundy cover with dust jacket. Hardcover.
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In the Briar Patch
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Entered From The Sun: The Murder Of Marlowe
( In this evocative novel, set in 1597, two men are hired...)
In this evocative novel, set in 1597, two men are hired by conflicting political factions to get to the bottom of Christopher Marlowe's mysterious murder. Was the famous playwright the victim of a drunken brawl or did his death have a sinister dimension of political intrigue?
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James Jones (HBJ album biographies)
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My Silk Purse and Yours: The Publishing Scene and American Literary Art
(This work contends that formula critics - like the formul...)
This work contends that formula critics - like the formula fiction they consider - can't tell a silk purse from a sow's ear. George Garrett can, and he isn't afraid to say so, even when his judgements aren't fashionable. "My Silk Purse and Yours" shows the combative Garrett taking on everything from New York's literary "star" system to the work of Kurt Vonnegut and John Barth. "I may be wrong," writes Garrett, "but you cannot convince me that I do not read more novels and story collections than the entire professional staffs of the New York Times (Sunday and daily) and the Washington Post (ditto) put together". The essays and reviews collected here aim to convince even the most sceptical reader of Garrett's claim. Whether he is pondering the problems and paradoxes of literary biography, taking apart the capriciousness of the publishing industry, or divulging the source of "the best Bloody Mary in England," Garrett's voice is the voice of one who knows. Garrett rarely strays from the firm grounding of his own experience as a reader. Eschewing literacy "stars," who too frequently eclipse lesser-known but often more talented artists, he explores such under-appreciated writers as Mary Johnston, Madison Smartt Bell and Reynolds Price. He champions writers who tackle subjects that will never make them popular. Of Shelby Foote's "The Civil War" he writes, "even assuming the good fortune of his living to complete his marathan enterprise and doing it tolerably well, the odds were strong, if not overwhelming, that in a time of instant attention and instant oblivion, he would find himself and his work cheerfully forgotten". Garrett writes of the Elizabethans, "their words are not only their greatest gift to us, but they are also the only true map we have to lead us to their world and safely back to our own". In "My Silk Purse and Yours" Garrett's explorations of American literary art always lead him back to his starting point. Opinionated, daring, and enlightening, "My Silk Purse and Yours" aims to be a shrewd and entertaining celebration of the lost art of reading and the troubled art of writing.
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Which Ones are the Enemy?
(London published Fiction)
London published Fiction
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The Finished Man (Voices of the South)
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Book by Garrett, George P.
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Do, Lord, Remember Me (Voices of the South)
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Book by Garrett, George
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Poison pen, or, Live now and pay later
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Entered From The Sun: The Murder Of Marlowe by George Garrett (1991-09-16)
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Whistling in the Dark: True Stories and Other Fables
(The author of Death of the Fox looks with nostalgia back ...)
The author of Death of the Fox looks with nostalgia back at his salad days at military school and at Princeton and his career in the army and discusses the Civil War.
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The Old Army Game: A Novel and Stories
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Poems For a Bitter Season
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Intro 6: Life As We Know It and Other Original Fiction and Poetry With a Symposium on "The First Novel Before and After"
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Life As We Know It and Other Original Fiction an
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Entered from the Sun
(Completing his masterful trilogy of novels set in Elizabe...)
Completing his masterful trilogy of novels set in Elizabethan England, Garrett again applies distinguished literary skills to spin a tale dark with deception and metaphysical questions but teeming with sensuous and concrete details that convey the spirit of the age. In 1597, when it seems that "half the people in England are spying on the other half," two Londoners skilled in deceit are forcibly enjoined by rival factions to investigate the recent death of dissolute poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe. Each of the two--Joseph Hunnyman, "common player" and con man, and Captain William Barfoot, soldier and spy--is aware of the other's investigation, but they come together, only through a third party, the provocative widow Alysoun. Like an impressionist painting, vivid in its small, shimmering details, the novel conveys a picture of Renaissance society, offers richly nuanced character portraits, and sparkles with bawdy humor and robust sexuality. Garrett's prose is oblique, his sentences arrestingly truncated, his narrative method seemingly digressive; in no rush to spill out his story, he circles round and round its mysterious core. Though the plot here is less compelling than those of the two previous novels, readers will enjoy a novel of rare literary quality, richly marinated in research, wondrously steeped in the world it artfully depicts. -PW
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George Palmer Garrett
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George Palmer Garrett, American Creative writing and English language educator, writer. Served in occupation of Trieste, Austria and Germany. Fellow American Academy in Rome; member Modern Language Association, Author's League, Writers Guild American East, Poetry Society American, Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Fellowship Southern Writers (vice chancellor1988, chancellor 1993-1997).
Education
Graduate, Hill School, 1947; Bachelor of Arts, Princeton University, 1952; Master of Arts, Princeton University, 1956; Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1985; Doctor of Letters (honorary), University South, 1995.
Career
Assistant Professor of English, Wesleyan University writer-in-residence, resident fellow in creative writing, Princeton University, 1964-1965; former associate professor, University of Virginia Professor of English, Hollins College Virginia, 1967-1971; professor, University of Southern California, Columbia, 1971-1973; professor, Princeton University, 1974-1978; professor, University of Michigan, 1979-1980, 83-84; Hoyns professor creative writing, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, since 1984; professor, Bennington College, 1980; Coal Royalty chair, U. Alabama, 1994.
Works
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Entered from the Sun
(Completing his masterful trilogy of novels set in Elizabe...)
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Whistling in the Dark: True Stories and Other Fables
(The author of Death of the Fox looks with nostalgia back ...)
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Entered From The Sun: The Murder Of Marlowe
( In this evocative novel, set in 1597, two men are hired...)
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My Silk Purse and Yours: The Publishing Scene and American Literary Art
(This work contends that formula critics - like the formul...)
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Intro 6: Life As We Know It and Other Original Fiction and Poetry With a Symposium on "The First Novel Before and After"
(Life As We Know It and Other Original Fiction an)
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Entered From the Sun First Edition Signed/inscribed By the Author
(Gray-burgundy cover with dust jacket. Hardcover.)
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Do Lord, Remember Me.
(Fictional Novel, Adult Fiction)
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The Finished Man (Voices of the South)
(Book by Garrett, George P.)
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Which Ones are the Enemy?
(London published Fiction)
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Do, Lord, Remember Me (Voices of the South)
(Book by Garrett, George)
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The Old Army Game: A Novel and Stories
(Book by Garrett, George)
- For a Bitter Season: New and Selected Poems
- The King Of Babylon Shall Not Come Against You
- In the Briar Patch
- James Jones (HBJ album biographies)
- Poison pen, or, Live now and pay later
- Entered From The Sun: The Murder Of Marlowe by George Garrett (1991-09-16)
- Poems For a Bitter Season
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Entered from the Sun
Membership
Served in occupation of Trieste, Austria and Germany. Fellow American Academy in Rome. Member Modern Language Association, Author's League, Writers Guild American East, Poetry Society American, Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Fellowship Southern Writers (vice chancellor1988, chancellor 1993-1997).
Connections
Married Susan Parrish Jackson, June 14, 1952. Children: William, George, Rosalie.
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Political Party
Democrat
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Recipient Rome prize American Academy Arts and Letters, 1958-1959, Sewanee Review fellow poetry, 1958-1959, American Academy and Institute of Letters award, 1985,Thomas Stearns Eliot award Ingersoll Foundation, 1990, Penn/Malamud award, 1990, Hollins College medal, 1992, University of Virginia President's Report award, 1992. Named Cultural Laureate of Virginia, 1986. Ford Foundation grantee in drama, 1960, National Found Arts grantee, 1966, Guggenheim fellow, 1974.Recipient Rome prize American Academy Arts and Letters, 1958-1959, Sewanee Review fellow poetry, 1958-1959, American Academy and Institute of Letters award, 1985,Thomas Stearns Eliot award Ingersoll Foundation, 1990, Penn/Malamud award, 1990, Hollins College medal, 1992, University of Virginia President's Report award, 1992. Named Cultural Laureate of Virginia, 1986. Ford Foundation grantee in drama, 1960, National Found Arts grantee, 1966, Guggenheim fellow, 1974.