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Garland Greever
1883–1967
Best remembered for helping generations of students learn clear, practical writing, this early 20th-century teacher and author moved easily between the classroom and the literary world. He also wrote poetry and built friendships with major figures such as Hamlin Garland and Robert Frost.
2 Audiobooks
The Century Vocabulary Builder
by Garland Greever, Joseph M. (Joseph Morris) Bachelor
The Century Handbook of Writing
by Garland Greever, Easley S. (Easley Stephen) Jones
About the author
Born in 1883, Garland Greever was an American writer, poet, and academic whose career was closely tied to the teaching of English. He taught in the English Department at the University of Southern California, and his name is most often linked with The Century Handbook of Writing, a widely used composition manual first published in 1918 with Easley S. Jones.
Greever worked at the point where literature and instruction meet: he wrote for students and teachers, but he was also part of a broader literary circle. Sources describe him as acquainted with Robert Frost, and he maintained a friendship with Hamlin Garland, whom he invited to speak to his classes. That mix of practical teaching and literary connection helps explain his lasting interest for readers today.
He died in 1967. While he is not as widely known now as some of the writers around him, his books had a long classroom life, and his work shows the lasting value of plain, careful English.