His most recent publications were Going to See the Elephant: Pieces of a Writing Life (Texas Review Books, 2002), essays A Story Goes With It (Five and Ten Press, 2004), a novella Double Vision (University of Alabama Press, 2004), a novel and Empty Bed Blues (University of Missouri Press, 2006), stories. George Garrett FAAR’59, who died in Charlottesville on 26 May aged 78, was celebrated not just as a Southern novelist of the first rank, but also as an extraordinarily gifted writer who brought a “peripatetic, swashbuckling sensibility” (in the words of one critic) to a whole host of literary genres.įrom The Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts: “Garrett was the author of thirty-five books, including novels, short story collections, poetry collections, essay collections, screenplays, and plays.
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