Garrett Epps Biography
Garrett Epps is a novelist, journalist, and legal researcher from the United States. He worked for The Richmond Afro-American, The Virginia Churchman, The Free-Lance Star, and The Washington Post as an editor or correspondent.
Garrett Epps Age
Epps was born in 1950, in Richmond, Virginia, United States of America. He is 73 years olf as of 2022.
Garrett Epps Education
Epps graduated from St. Christopher’s School and Harvard College, where he served as president of The Harvard Crimson. Later, he earned an M.A. in Creative Writing from Hollins University and a J.D. from Duke University, where he graduated top in his class.
Garrett Epps Family
Attempts to establish the identities of his mother and father were in vain since no information about them is available to the public. It’s therefore not known whether he has any siblings.
Garrett Epps Career
He was a law professor at the University of Baltimore until June 2020, when he retired. Prior to that, he was the Orlando J. and Marian H. Hollis Professor of Law at the University of Oregon.[1He cofounded The Richmond Mercury, a short-lived alternative weekly whose graduates included Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Frank Rich and Glenn Frankel, after graduating from Harvard. He also worked for The Richmond Afro-American, The Virginia Churchman, The Free-Lance Star, and The Washington Post as an editor or correspondent. He was a columnist for Independent Weekly (formerly a bi-weekly) from 1983 to 1988. He spent a year clerking for Judge John D. Butzner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit before coming to the University of Oregon.
To An Unknown God: Religious Freedom on Trial, published in 2001 and a finalist for the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award, and Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Civil Rights in Post-Civil War America, published in 2006. Democracy Reborn was a nominee for the ABA Silver Gavel Award and won the Oregon Book Award for nonfiction in 2007. In addition, he has published numerous essays and editorials in newspapers such as the New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic. In his piece “The Great Mistake of the Founders,”
Garrett Epps Books
The Shad Treatment (1977)
The Floating Island (1985)
To An Unknown God (2001)
Democracy Reborn (2006)
Peyote vs the State (2009)
Wrong and Dangerous (2012)
American Epic (2013)
Garrett Epps’s Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of 500 thousand dollars.