John C. Farrar

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John Chipman Farrar (February 25, 1896 – November 5, 1974) was an American editor, writer and publisher. Farrar founded two publishing companies — Farrar & Rinehart and Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He also conceived and founded the Breadloaf Writers' Conference in 1926.^[1]

Life

Farrar was born in Burlington, Vermont. After serving in World War I, as an aviation inspector, he graduated in 1919 from Yale University, where he contributed to campus humor magazine The Yale Record^[2] and was a member of Skull and Bones.^[3]^:127 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 & 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.

His work appeared in Harper's.^[4]

In 1926, Farrar married crossword puzzle pioneer Margaret Petherbridge.

Farrar died in New York City.

Works

Portraits Yale prize poem, Yale University Press, 1916
Forgotten Shrines. Yale University Press. 1919.
Songs for parents. Yale University Press. 1921.
Gold-Killer: A Mystery of the New Underworld, as John Prosper, with Prosper Buranelli New York: Doran 1922
The Bookman Anthology of Essays, editor, George H. Doran company, 1923
Songs for Johnny-Jump-Up, R.R. Smith, Inc., 1930

Anthologies

John Williams Andrews, Stephen Vincent Benét, John Chipman Farrar, Pierson Underwood, ed. (1919). The Yale book of student verse, 1910-1919. Yale University Press.
Charles Wharton Stork, ed. (1920). Contemporary verse anthology: favorite poems selected from the magazine, "Contemporary verse.".

References

↑ Fraser, C. Gerald, "John C. Farrar, Publisher, Editor and Writer, Is Dead." PDF The New York Times, November 7, 1974
↑ Bronson, Francis W., Thomas Caldecott Chubb, and Cyril Hume, eds. (1922) The Yale Record Book of Verse: 1872-1922. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 68-69.
↑ Robbins, Alexandra (2002). Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power. Boston: Little, Brown. ISBN 0-316-72091-7.
↑ http://www.harpers.org/subjects/JohnChipmanFarrar

External links

John C. Farrar obituary, Time (November 18, 1974)
Forgotten Shrines — Full text at the Internet Archive
Works by or about John C. Farrar in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
Works by John Chipman Farrar at Project Gutenberg

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Persondata
Name	Farrar, John C.
Alternative names	Farrar, John Chipman
Short description	editor, writer, publisher
Date of birth	February 25, 1896
Place of birth	Burlington, Vermont
Date of death	November 5, 1974
Place of death	New York, New York

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