George Garrett

(1929 - 2008)

A writer, poet, and professor, George Garrett graduated from Princeton University in 1952. He later served in the army as a field sergeant in Trieste, after which time he began to work on a PhD, also at Princeton. The author of more than forty books, Garrett wrote nonfiction, novels, short stories, poetry, plays, and screenplays, but he is best known for his trilogy of historical novels: Death of the Fox: A Novel of Elizabeth and Ralegh (1971), The Succession: A Novel of Elizabeth and James (1983), and Entered from the Sun: The Murder of Marlowe (1990).