Barry Farrell

1935 (age 49)

He worked for Time, Life and Harper"s Magazines in the 1960s and 1970s. He also wrote a book about Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal entitled Pat and Roald. Farrell was a native of Seattle, Washington. Farrell was hired by Time magazine in 1960, working first in San Francisco then in New York where he became the magazine’s music writer He moved to Los Angeles in the early 1970s where he was West Coast Editor of Harper"son He also taught writing, including at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Time cover stories by Farrell included symphony conductor Bruno Walter (1963), jazz pianist Thelonious Monk (1964) and French actress Jeanne Moreau (1965). In 1968, he signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge and refused to pay taxes in protest against the Vietnam War. Farrell interviewed Buckminster Fuller for Playboy magazine in February 1972. A collection of his essays, How I Got to Be This Hip, edited by Steve Hawk, was published in 1999. Farrell died at age 49 in the Veterans Administration Hospital, West Los Angeles in 1984, after suffering a heart attack.

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He graduated from the University of Washington in 1956, served in the United States. Army, and started his writing career at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

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He worked for Time, Life and Harper"s Magazines in the 1960s and 1970s. He also wrote a book about Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal entitled Pat and Roald. Farrell was a native of Seattle, Washington.

Farrell was hired by Time magazine in 1960, working first in San Francisco then in New York where he became the magazine’s music writer

He moved to Los Angeles in the early 1970s where he was West Coast Editor of Harper"son He also taught writing, including at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Time cover stories by Farrell included symphony conductor Bruno Walter (1963), jazz pianist Thelonious Monk (1964) and French actress Jeanne Moreau (1965). In 1968, he signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge and refused to pay taxes in protest against the Vietnam War.

Farrell interviewed Buckminster Fuller for Playboy magazine in February 1972.

A collection of his essays, How I Got to Be This Hip, edited by Steve Hawk, was published in 1999. Farrell died at age 49 in the Veterans Administration Hospital, West Los Angeles in 1984, after suffering a heart attack.

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