Garet Garrett

Born Edward Peter Garrett in Illinois in 1878, he built a career in journalism rather than through formal schooling. He wrote for major newspapers and became especially well known as a financial writer, bringing economic debates to a wide general audience.

He also wrote fiction, including The Driver, The Cinder Buggy, and Satan's Bushel, but he is most often remembered for his political and economic essays. As a writer and editor for The Saturday Evening Post, he argued against the New Deal and warned that centralized government power was changing the character of American life.

Later readers have continued to turn to his work for its clear, forceful prose and its skepticism of political power. Whether encountered as a novelist, columnist, or commentator on economics, he remains a distinctive voice in twentieth-century American letters.