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Lifetime Achievement Award — Leslie Garrett

Hospice nurses discovered the body at his Fort Sanders apartment about 10 a.m. and I was called to identify him and take charge of the estate. He was 62. Garrett lived to see HarperCollins publish In the Country of Desire, which a Los Angeles Times critic called a masterpiece…In a letter regarding his terminal illness, Garrett wrote, “I regret the stories and novels that will now go unwritten, and the people I loved whose voices I will never hear again.” — Don Williams

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NMW Founder Plays Key Role in Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

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NMW’s Editor Emeritus and Founder, Don Williams, was entrusted with a very special role at The 13th Annual East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame Ceremony.

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NMW Honored to Participate in Writers Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

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NMW’s Editor-in-Chief, Alexis Williams Carr, honored as a special presenter at The 12th Annual East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame Ceremony.

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Above All There Was The Writer | Don Williams

Nonfiction

It was two years ago, on the Sunday before Leslie Garrett died, that he craved lemonade. The kind his grandmother Florence Bradley used to make. If you come across a…

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Leslie Garrett Cast A Long Shadow | Don Williams

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Leslie Garrett hated to be called a little man. But there it was. Physically, I dwarfed my novelist friend when we walked down the street to our favorite haunts to talk…

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Leslie Garrett Writes His Way Back | Don Williams

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In the 1960s Leslie Garrett was positioned to claim a place in the pantheon of important American writers. The Knoxvillian-to-be was living the life of expatriate writer in Paris in 1966 when he learned that his first novel, The Beasts, had won the prestigious Maxwell Perkins Award, named for the legendary editor of Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe and William Faulkner. Then Garrett disappeared from view…

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