George (Palmer Garrett Jr.)

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Garrett, George [Palmer, Jr.] (1929–), born in Florida, educated at Princeton, to which he returned as a professor after teaching writing and criticism at Hollins College and the University of South Carolina. His first publication was poetry, continued in The Sleeping Gypsy (1958), Abraham's Knife (1961), For a Bitter Season (1967), Welcome to the Medicine Show (1978), and Love's Shining Child (1981). He is also known for his fiction, his stories being collected in King of the Mountain (1958), In the Briar Patch (1961), Cold Ground Was My Bed Last Night (1964), A Wreath for Garibaldi (1969), and The Magic Striptease (1973). His novels include The Finished Man (1959), about Florida politics; Which Ones Are the Enemy? (1961); Do, Lord, Remember Me (1965), concerning religious revival show people; Death of the Fox (1971), a fictional biography of Sir Walter Raleigh; The Succession (1984), about Queen Elizabeth and her successor, James I; and Poison Pen (1986), a humorous and often epistolary story. Modern biography and literary criticism occur in James Jones (1984). Sir Slob and the Princess (1962) is a play for children.