He wrote for magazines and also writer The Outboard Boys series of books.
In addition to his writing of books for children and adults, he contributed to the Waterbury, Connecticut Republican and wrote for the stage and for television.
[3] He also wrote the play The Pony Cart, which ran in London and New York in the late 1950s.
[citation needed] Garis married Adine Haviland in 1937, though the couple later divorced.
[1] The Garises' daughter, Leslie Garis, wrote a memoir about her family, House of Happy Endings, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2007.