From 1974 to 1977 he was senior fellow at the Council of the Humanities, Princeton University. In 1971, he became professor of English and writer-in-residence at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, where he taught until 1973. In 1964–65 he was writer-in-residence at Princeton University. After one year as a visiting lecturer at Rice University, he became associate professor of English at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, where he taught for five years before accepting a post as professor of English at Hollins College (now University, Virginia, in 1967. He began his teaching career as an assistant professor at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut (1957–60). Garrett served in the US Army (1946–47), and was stationed in Europe, in Leonding, Austria. He also received his MA (1956) and PhD (1985) from Princeton. He earned his BA from Princeton University in 1952, having matriculated in 1947 and having attended Columbia University in 1948–49. He graduated from the Sewanee Military Academy in Sewanee, Tennessee, in 1945. George Palmer Garrett was born in Orlando, Florida on June 11, 1929. Dillard, Casey Clabough, and Irving Malin. He is the subject of critical books by R. He worked as a book reviewer and screenwriter, and taught at Cambridge University and, for many years, at the University of Virginia. His novels include The Finished Man, Double Vision, and the Elizabethan Trilogy, composed of Death of the Fox, The Succession, and Entered from the Sun. He was the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2002 to 2004.

George Palmer Garrett (June 11, 1929 – May 25, 2008) was an American poet and novelist.

Death of the Fox by George Garrett