Garet Garrett

Born Edward Peter Garrett in Pana, Illinois, on February 19, 1878, he became known as Garet Garrett and built a career as an American journalist, novelist, and editorial writer. He worked in financial journalism, including at the New York Sun and later the Saturday Evening Post, and developed a reputation for writing crisply about business, politics, and public affairs.

Garrett also wrote fiction, including The Driver, a novel centered on high finance that helped make his name as a storyteller of ambition and economic power. Later, he became especially well known for his opposition to Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal and for arguing against U.S. involvement in World War II, positions that made him a prominent dissenting voice in mid-20th-century American political debate.

His best-known later book is The People's Pottage, a collection of essays published in 1953. Whether readers agree with him or not, Garrett remains memorable for combining newsroom clarity with a novelist's sense of drama, turning arguments about money, government, and national purpose into writing that still feels vivid and forceful.