Garber wrote
Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety, a theoretical work on
transvestitism's contribution to culture. Other works include
Sex and Real Estate: Why We Love Houses,
Academic Instincts,
Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life,
Shakespeare After All, and
Dog Love. Her book
Shakespeare After All (Pantheon, 2004) was chosen one of
Newsweek′s ten best nonfiction books of the year, and was awarded the 2005
Christian Gauss Book Award from
Phi Beta Kappa. She was educated at
Swarthmore College (B.A., 1966; L.H.D., 2004 [honorary]) and
Yale University (1969), writing her PhD on
dreams in Shakespeare. Elizabeth Winkler interviewed Garber in
Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies, where Garber described her interest in the characters and reception of the works of
William Shakespeare, but distanced herself from colleagues who produced fanciful biographies of the man. ==Selected bibliography==