George Garrett, former Chancellor and founding member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, has written over 30 books of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, and taught for 42 years at the University of Virginia.  His Elizabethan Trilogy includes Death of the Fox, The Succession, and Entered from the Sun. Recent books are Double Vision, Bad Man Blues, Going to See the Elephant, Empty Bed Blues, and Southern Excursions. Honors include the Prix de Rome, the T.S. Eliot Award, the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction, the Commonwealth of Virginia Governor’s Award for the Arts, and the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry. Garrett served as Poet Laureate of Virginia.