Going to See the Elephant: Pieces of a Writing Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781881515425)

Author of thirty-two books and editor or co-editor of nineteen others, GEORGE GARRETT recently retired from the University of Virginia after a forty-year teaching career. Among his many honors are the Rome Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters; a Sewanee Review Fellowship in Poetry; fellowships from the Guggenheim, Ford, and Rockefeller Foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts; the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry; the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction; and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, with his wife of fifty years.