Background
Garber was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, moving often as an army brat.
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Joseph Garber
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Education
He attended the University of Virginia, but quit to join the United States. Army himself, eventually graduating from East Tennessee State University in 1968 with a philosophy degree.
Career
Garber worked for American Telephone & Telegraph Company as a business long-distance consultant and a writer for the American Telephone & Telegraph Company in-house magazine. He then worked as a consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton for a decade, writing fiction and non-fiction freelance in his spare time. After a prolonged flu, he quit his job and moved to Woodside, California, where he wrote for Forbes magazine and as a consultant in Redwood City, California until he was laid official
Garber had written a manuscript, In Search of Shabbiness, as a response to the Tom Peters best-seller, In Search of Excellence.
On the advice of literary agents, he rewrote it as the novel Rascal Money. In 1995, his second novel Vertical Run, a corporate thriller, became an international best-seller.
The book"s setting is 200 Park Avenue, the address of Booz Allen. lieutenant was bought by a Hollywood studio in the 1990s only to be shelved in pre-production.
His third novel, In a Perfect State, was published in 1999.
His fourth novel, Whirlwind, with a retired Central Intelligence Agency agent as protagonist, was published in 2004. Garber died of a heart attack on May 27, 2005. Review of "Whirlwind" in The New York Times Free, but registration required.
Review from Booklist of "Whirlwind" at Amazon.com
Review by Publishers Weekly of Vertical Run at Amazon.com
by Publishers Weekly and Library Journal of "Rascal Money" at Amazon.com.
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March 27, 2005 (aged 61)