Garret Keizer

Garret Keizer Born in 1953, is an American author, writer and essayist. He has written numerous critically acclaimed books including: Help: The Original Human Dilemma, The Enigma of Anger, and A Dresser of Sycamore Trees. He is also a regular contributor to Harper's Magazine. He has served as an Episcopal priest and a High School English teacher. He grew up in New Jersey and now lives with his family in northeastern Vermont.

Authored books

• The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want: A Book About Noise
• The Enigma of Anger: Essays on a Sometimes Deadly Sin
• A Dresser of Sycamore Trees: The Finding of A Ministry
• Help: The Original Human Dilemma
• God of Beer
• No Place But Here: A Teacher's Vocation in a Rural Community
• Privacy, Picador, 2012
• Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher, Henry Holt, 2014

Selected articles

• Requiem for the Private Word - Harper's Magazine - August 2008
• Specific suggestion: General strike - Harper's Magazine - October 2007
• Left, Right and Wrong - Mother Jones - March/April 2005
• Sound and Fury - Harper's Magazine - March 2001
• Life Everlasting - Harper's Magazine - February 2005
• Loaded - Harper's Magazine - December 2006
• Keizer, Garret (December 2008). "Of Mohawks and Mavericks". Harper's Magazine. 317 (1903): 9–11.