and The Nations tomdispatch.com. Awards Garson was awarded an Obie for The Dinosaur Door and a Special Commission from the New York State Council on the Arts, for the Creation of Plays for Younger audiences. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Louis M. Rabinowitz Foundation Grant, the New York Public Library Books to Remember award and Library Journal's Best Business Books of 1989 award, and a MacArthur Foundation Grant for reading and writing. Later activism In the 1992 U.S. Presidential election, Garson was the running mate for J. Quinn Brisben on the Socialist Party USA ticket, replacing Bill Edwards, who died during the race. In August 1992, she received a message on her answering machine: "We're sorry to tell you that the Socialist Vice-Presidential candidate, Bill Edwards, has died. We would like your help in writing a press release for the newspapers. And also, would you like to run for Vice President?", which she initially believed to be a joke. Garson was active in the protest movement against corporate globalization and the protests in advance of the Iraq War. She was in attendance at Zuccotti Park during the Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011. References 1941 births Living people American essayists American political writers American socialists Writers from Brooklyn Socialist Party USA vice presidential nominees 1992 United States vice-presidential candidates 20th-century American politicians Female candidates for Vice President of the United States American women poets American women essayists American women dramatists and playwrights Socialist Party USA politicians from New York (state) 20th-century American women politicians 21st-century American women