Roger Garis
Roger Carroll Garis ( – ) was an American author known as a writer for magazines and the author of "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. Biography. His father, Howard R. Garis, and his mother, Lilian Garis, were very popular authors in their day, writing hundreds of books under their own names, as well as pseudonyms. Garis was born in Newark, New Jersey, and attended Princeton University and Columbia University, but received his law degree  from New Jersey Law School. Garis also wrote several books under pseudonyms for the Stratemeyer Syndicate, as did his parents. Garis' sister, Cleo F., also wrote a three-book series concurrently with his "Outboard Boys" series. Roger Garis' daughter, Leslie Garis, wrote a memoir of the family, "The House of Happy Endings" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007).