George Garrett was born in Orlando, Florida, on 11 June 1929, the son of George Palmer and Rosalie Toomer Garrett. His marriage to Susan Parrish Jackson in 1952 has produced three children: William, ...
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George Garrett was born in Orlando, Florida. He was educated at Sewanee Military Academy and the Hill School, and he entered Princeton University in 1947, receiving a B.A. in 1952 and an M.A. in 1956....
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In 1961 three different publishing houses each published a book by George Garrett on the same day: Abraham's Knife, his third collections of poems (University of North Carolina Press); In the Briar...
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"When I was young and proud and poor and feisty," George Garrett wrote of himself in a 1985 essay on the group of southern writers known as the Fugitives, "and such things seemed to matter, I was va...
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George (Palmer) Garrett
