Going to See the Elephant: Pieces of a Writing Life

＂Going to See the Elephant is a safari into the wilds of the mind of George Garrett, and a more interesting place to explore is hard to imagine. Whether he (or his beleaguered alter-ego, John Towne) is examining the writing life, tipping his hat to other writers, or fulminating about the sorry state of the world we live in, he is well worth a listen - both for the sheer pleasure of it and for the wisdom to be found in it.＂ --R.H.W. Dillard, author of Understanding George Garrett

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.