'Uncle and maestro': Remembering George Garrett
At a memorial service last week for writer and UVA professor George Garrett, who died on May 25 after an 18-month battle with bladder cancer, UVA president John Casteen called him a "great man of letters" and a "reader and teacher without peer" and credited him with conceiving of and shaping the University's program in Creative Writing, which is consistently ranked among the best in the Country.
"He took his work seriously," Casteen said to a packed house at the UVA Chapel, "but never took himself seriously."
Indeed, most of the hundred or so people who had come to remember Garrett, all wearing the "Friends of George" buttons that were handed out, smiled and nodded.
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