John Chipman Farrar
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John Chipman Farrar (1896-1974) was an American writer and publisher.
He was born in Burlington, Vermont. After serving in World War I, as an aviation inspector, he graduated in 1919 from Yale University and was a member of the Skull and Bones. In that year his book Forgotten Shrines was awarded the Yale Younger Poets Prize.
He became editor of The Bookman, up to its 1927 purchase by Seward Collins. Going into publishing, he worked for two years at Doubleday, Doran and Company. Then in 1929 he was a founder of the house of Farrar and Rinehart, with Stanley M. Rinehart Jr. and Frederick R. Rinehart, sons of Mary Roberts Rinehart who had also been at Doubleday Doran.
Later, after war work in WWII, he was a founder of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Notable success in the field of publishing was achieved by many of the Skull and Bones classmen in those years. Fellow Bonesman, Charles Phelps Taft headed Taft's media empire, Hamilton Hadley Persident Research Corp., Henry Luce founded Time Magazine and headed the Time-Life empire. Francias Thayer Hobson was President of William Morrow & Co., David Sinton Ingalls was President and Publisher of Cincinnati Publishing, Charles Christian Haffner Jr.was CEO RR Donnelley & Sons and Storer Boardman Lunt was President of American Book Publishers Council and National Publishers Association
Bonesman of Farrar's graduating class in the news included the Boodle Boys Yale Flying Group which gave rise to the US Department of Air Defense headed by Brown Brothers Harriman Bonesman Robert Lovett.
[edit] Works
- Portraits (1916) Yale prize poem
- Forgotten Shrines (1919)
- Gold-Killer: A Mystery of the New Underworld (1922) as John Prosper, with Prosper Buranelli
- The Bookman Anthology of Essays (1923) editor
- Songs for Johnny-Jump-Up (1930)
