Grover gardner biography
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Grover Gardner
American narrator of audiobooks
Grover Gardner (b 1956)[1] is an American narrator of audiobooks.
Grover gardner biography
As of May 2018, he has narrated over 1,200 books.[2] He was the Publishers Weekly "Audiobook Narrator of the Year" (2005) and is among AudioFile magazine's "Best Voices of the Century".[2]
Biography
Gardner is a native of Pennsylvania.[1] He attended high school in Belgium.[1] He graduated from Florida's Rollins College in 1978 as a theater major.[1]
In 1981, Gardner was an actor in the Washington, D.C.
region, working at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company under Howard Shalwitz.[4] He won a number of lead actor awards for plays such as Metamorphoses and The Rocky Horror Show.
Gardner heard about and auditioned for the Library of Congress' Books for the Blind Program.
He worked at fellow theater actor Flo Gibson's Audio Book Contractors in the DC region to produce classic literature on c