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==Novels==
 
==Novels==
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Garrett's 1922 novel features Henry Galt, a Wall Street financier, a shadowy figure who stays out of the limelight as much as possible until he unleashes a plan that had been years in the making: he uses his extraordinary entrepreneurial talent to acquire control of a failing railroad.  Henry Galt resembles [[John Galt]], the central figure of ''Atlas Shrugged'', a 1957 novel by [[Ayn Rand]]<ref> See [http://books.google.com/books?id=SoqU_RBwhNIC&dq=intitle:driver+inauthor:garrett&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=30&as_brr=0&source=gbs_navlinks_s ''The Driver'' (1922) online]
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Garrett's 1922 novel features Henry Galt, a Wall Street financier, a shadowy figure who stays out of the limelight as much as possible until he unleashes a plan that had been years in the making: he uses his extraordinary entrepreneurial talent to acquire control of a failing railroad.  Henry Galt resembles [[John Galt]], the central figure of ''Atlas Shrugged'', a 1957 novel by [[Ayn Rand]]<ref> See [http://books.google.com/books?id=SoqU_RBwhNIC&dq=intitle:driver+inauthor:garrett&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=30&as_brr=0&source=gbs_navlinks_s ''The Driver'' (1922) online]</ref>
    
''The Cinder Buggy'' (1923), his longest novel, chronicles the transformation of America from the age of iron to the age of steel.  
 
''The Cinder Buggy'' (1923), his longest novel, chronicles the transformation of America from the age of iron to the age of steel.  
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