Garry Apgar

Garry Apgar has a PhD in art history from Yale and a Master's degree in "Lettres Modernes" from the Sorbonne. He has taught art history, French literature, film studies, and cross-disciplinary topics at Brown University, Princeton, Trinity College (Hartford), the University of Delaware, Université de Lyon, and Southern Connecticut State University.

On Forbes.com (July 18, 2019), Darryn King described his book “Mickey Mouse: Emblem of the American Spirit” as "a breathtakingly panoramic exploration of what one might call nearly a century of cultural mice infestation – with cameo appearances from everyone from Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini to Christina Aguilera."

King went on to say that "'A Mickey Mouse Reader,' edited by Apgar (who also provides useful and incisive commentary), collects the most probing and insightful writing about the character over nine decades, including many contemporaneous accounts from Mickey’s first decade; and pieces by the likes of E. M. Forster, Stephen Jay Gould, Maurice Sendak and John Updike. Updike, in particular, recounts his childhood affection for the character with obvious warmth."

The Times Literary Supplement, in its June 3, 2016 issue, gave "Mickey Mouse: Emblem of the American Spirit" a full-page review, and it's been favorably reviewed in Wired and The Weekly Standard. A French edition, "Mickey Mouse, icône du rêve américain," published by Glénat Editions, appeared in 2016.

"Emblem" was commissioned by the late Diane Disney Miller and published in 2015 by the Walt Disney Family Foundation Press. "A Mickey Mouse Reader" was published in 2014 by the University Press of Mississippi.

Garry is also the author of "L'Art Singulier de Jean Huber: Voir Voltaire" (Adam Biro, 1995). An article he contributed to "Voltaire Chez Lui: Genève et Ferney" (Skira, 1994) was reprinted in "Voltaire Chez Lui: Ferney, 1758-1778" (Cabédita, 1999), and he wrote the principal essay in "The Newspaper in Art" (New Media Ventures, 1996).

He is a former staff artist and political cartoonist with the Roanoke Times and has contributed cartoons and articles to Le Figaro, L'Express, Pilote, Le Monde, Paris Metro, the New York Times, Weekly Standard, Master Drawings, Apollo, and Art in America. A co-founder and current President of The Voltaire Society of America, he co-authored the documentary "Voltaire and Jefferson: The Sage of Ferney and the Man From Monticello" (Princeton: Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2001).

Garry edited and illustrated "Quotes for Conservatives," published in March 2020 by Center Street, an imprint of Hachette Books. "The Quotable Voltaire," a bilingual dictionary of quotations by and about Voltaire he co-edited was released by Bucknell University Press in June 2021.