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'''James Finn Garner''' is an [[United States|American]] writer and [[satirist]] based in Chicago.<ref>[http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=RM&p_theme=rm&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB4E4437A2BD016&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM "No Offense, But.... Satirist James Finn Garner Is Back With A Christmas Tweak On Political Correctness"]; ''[[Rocky Mountain News]]'', 2 January 1996.</ref> He is the author of ''[[Politically Correct Bedtime Stories]]'',<ref>[http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-887853.html "Book World; Fables For the PC '90s"]; ''[[The Washington Post]]'', 27 April 1994.</ref> ''Politically Correct Holiday Stories'', ''Apocalypse Wow'', "Once Upon A More Enlightened Time" and May 2007 "Recut Madness" (www.jamesfinngarner.com)
'''James Finn Garner''' (born 1960)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/15/books/jack-the-beanstalk-and-his-marginalized-mother.html |title = Jack, the Beanstalk and His Marginalized Mother - The New York Times| newspaper=The New York Times | date=May 15, 1994 | last1=O'Conner | first1=Patricia T. }}</ref> is an [[Americans|American]] writer and [[satirist]] based in Chicago.<ref>[http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=RM&p_theme=rm&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB4E4437A2BD016&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM "No Offense, But.... Satirist James Finn Garner Is Back With A Christmas Tweak On Political Correctness"]; ''[[Rocky Mountain News]]'', 2 January 1996.</ref> He is the author of ''[[Politically Correct Bedtime Stories]]'',<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110516195023/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-887853.html "Book World; Fables For the PC '90s"]; ''[[The Washington Post]]'', 27 April 1994.</ref> ''Politically Correct Holiday Stories'', ''Apocalypse Wow'', "Once Upon A More Enlightened Time", and "Recut Madness".

Garner graduated from the [[University of Michigan]] where he won a Hopwood Award for one of his short plays. Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, Garner's first book, has sold more than 2.5 million copies in the U.S. and has been translated into 20 languages. It spent 65 weeks on the New York Times Best Sellers list.




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For other people named James Garner, see James Garner (disambiguation).

James Finn Garner (born 1960)[1] is an American writer and satirist based in Chicago.[2] He is the author of Politically Correct Bedtime Stories,[3] Politically Correct Holiday Stories, Apocalypse Wow, "Once Upon A More Enlightened Time", and "Recut Madness".

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  1. ^ O'Conner, Patricia T. (May 15, 1994). "Jack, the Beanstalk and His Marginalized Mother - The New York Times". The New York Times.
  2. ^ "No Offense, But.... Satirist James Finn Garner Is Back With A Christmas Tweak On Political Correctness"; Rocky Mountain News, 2 January 1996.
  3. ^ "Book World; Fables For the PC '90s"; The Washington Post, 27 April 1994.
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