Garland Greever

Garland Greever (1883–1967) was an American writer, poet, and academic. With Easley S. Jones, he published the Century Handbook of Writing; this book, which followed Edwin C. Woolley's ''Handbook of Composition (the first "handbook of mechanical correctness" in the United States), competed with Woolley's for dominance in the market until the 1930s. With Joseph M. Bachelor, he published two more "Century" textbooks for English studies, The Century Vocabulary Builder (1922) and The Century Book of Selections (1924).

Greever taught in the English Department at the University of Southern California, along with Frank C. Baxter, and was acquainted with poet Robert Frost, for whom he tried, without success, to get a residency at USC in 1933. He was friends also with novelist and poetHamlin Garland, whom he invited to attend his classes for guest lectures; Garland, in turn, would mentor Greever's promising students.