John Chipman Farrar (February 25, 1896 – November 5, 1974) was an American editor, writer, and publisher. Farrar founded two publishing companies —

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and

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. He also conceived and founded the Breadloaf Writers' Conference in 1926.

Life

Farrar was born in

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. After serving in World War I as an aviation inspector, he graduated in 1919 from

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, where he contributed to campus humor magazine ''

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'' and was a member of

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. 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

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. Going into publishing, he worked for two years at

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. Then in 1929 he was a founder of the house of

, with Stanley M. Rinehart Jr. and Frederick R. Rinehart, sons of

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who had also been at Doubleday Doran. During the Second World War, Farrar took a post in the

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's Overseas News and Features Bureau. Farrar soon took a leave of absence to serve overseas. He spent several months in the Mediterranean, where, as the Allies advanced on Italy and North Africa, he took charge of Psychological Warfare in Algeria. Upon Farrar's return from Algeria he spent the rest of 1945 winding down his work on the army magazines known as ''Victory'' and ''America'
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Later, after war work in World War II, he was a founder of

. Also, he is considered to be influential in the successful establishment of the

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in Middleburg, Vermont. According to

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('' Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War'', p. 242) Farrar also played a role in

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's appointment of John Hunt to replace the

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's ailing head

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. Farrar recommended Hunt for his "executive ability, a careful head and a sense of mission for the things we all believe in." His work appeared in ''Harper's''. In 1926, Farrar married

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pioneer Margaret Petherbridge. Farrar died in New York City. He is buried at Lakeside Cemetery in Burlington, Vermont.

Works

* ''Portraits'', Yale prize poem, Yale University Press, 1916 * * * ''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

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References

External links

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John C. Farrar obituary
''

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'' (November 18, 1974) * * John Chipman Farrar Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. {{DEFAULTSORT:Farrar, John C. American publishers (people) American book publishing company founders 20th-century American poets 20th-century American male writers American male poets Writers from Burlington, Vermont Yale Younger Poets winners The Yale Record alumni 1896 births 1974 deaths Members of Skull and Bones