Louisiana State University Press, 1966–69. From 1958 to 1971 he was United States poetry editor for Transatlantic Review and, from 1965 to 1971 co-editor of Hollins Critic. He was a contributing editor for Contempora and assistant editor of The Film Journal. With Brendan Galvin he edited Poultry: A Magazine of Voice; and he was fiction editor at The Texas Review. He is known for his Elizabethan trilogy, Death of the Fox, The Succession, and Entered from the Sun, a body of work that is so imbued with its subject matter and time as to create the sense that he lived through it all, and had total recall of life in the respective courts of Queen Elizabeth I and James I. Death of the Fox, the first of the books, raises questions about the nature of the form itself, and in fact all of Garrett's writing challenges the accepted ideas about the various forms in which he chose to work. The vast panorama of fictional and historical people that occupy the stage in the three novels is equaled by the beautifully drawn contemporary cast of characters in his other novels: the political novel The Finished Man; Do Lord, Remember Me; Which Ones Are the Enemy?; and The King of Babylon Shall Not Come Against You. Garrett never repeated himself, and the variety of his output has perhaps been a bit daunting to the critical establishment of his time, American critics tending to prefer their subjects to be rather one-noted, consistent and readily classified as to type, or theme, or treatment. Garrett died at home in Charlottesville, Virginia, at the age of 78 of cancer. He had been diagnosed with cancer in 2006 after having suffered from myasthenia gravis for some years. He was buried at the University of Virginia Cemetery. George Garrett's papers are housed in the Duke University Special Collections Library. Awards Sewanee Review fellowship (1958) American Academy in Rome fellowship (1958) Ford grant, for drama (1960) National Endowment for the Arts grant (1967) Contempora award (1971) Guggenheim fellowship (1974) American Academy award (1985) New York Public Library Literary Lion award (1988) T. S. Eliot Award (1989) PEN/Malamud Award for short fiction (1990) Aiken-Taylor Award (1999) Lifetime Achievement Award from the Library of Virginia (2004) Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement from the Fellowship of Southern Writers (2005) Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize (2006) Bibliography Novels The Finished Man (1960) Which