Garth Greenwell Born : 1978 Browse All Authors Top 43 quotes by Garth Greenwell Teaching high school was my real training as a novelist: it got me out of my head, and (at least a little) out of books, and invested me in the lives of others and the world around me. Garth Greenwell real teaching book My first MFA was in poetry, and it was very much part of a professional trajectory leading to life as a professor. But in my second and third years at Harvard, I realized I didn't want an academic life. Garth Greenwell academic-life want years Whenever I go to New York I try to soak up as much live music as I can, including as many nights at the opera as I can manage. Garth Greenwell new-york trying night