Garis, Howard R

Garis, Howard R

▪ American author
born April 25, 1873, Binghamton, N.Y., U.S.
died Nov. 6, 1962, Amherst, Mass.

      author, creator of the Uncle Wiggily series of children's stories, who began his career as a newspaperman on the Newark Evening News in 1896. Shortly after, he began writing a daily bedtime story about Uncle Wiggily—a rabbit hero—and his friends. He averaged a story a day (except Sunday) until he retired in 1947. In all, he turned out more than 15,000 stories and about 500 books.

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