Garrett Epps

Garrett Epps

Garrett Epps (born in 1950 in Richmond, Virginia) is an award-winning legal scholar, novelist, and journalist. He currently is the Orlando J. and Marian H. Hollis Professor of Law at the University of Oregon. Epps has written two novels, including "The Shad Treatment", which won the Lillian Smith Book Award, as well as the nonfiction books ', which was published in 2001 and was a finalist for the ABA's Silver Gavel Award, and ', which was published in 2006 and is the first comprehensive history of the framing of the Fourteenth Amendment.Fact|date=February 2007. "Democracy Reborn" won the 2007 Oregon Book Award for non-fiction, and also was a finalist for the ABA Silver Gavel Award. He has also written numerous articles and editorials in newspapers including "The New York Times" and "The Washington Post".

Epps attended St. Christopher's School and Harvard College, where he was the President of The Harvard Crimson. He later received an M.A. in Creative Writing from Hollins University, and a law degree from Duke University, where he was first in his class. Immediately before coming to the University of Oregon, he spent a year clerking for the Honorable John D. Butzner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Books

*"The Shad Treatment" (1977)
*"" (1985)
*"" (2001)
*"" (2006)


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