Background
Farrar was born in Burlington, Vermont.
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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 and was a member of Skull and Bones.
Career
Farrar founded two publishing companies — Farrar & Rinehart and Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He also conceived and founded the Breadloaf Writers" Conference in 1926. 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.
Also, he is considered to be influential in the successful establishment of the Bread Loaf Writers" Conference at Middlebury College in Middleburg, Vermont. His work appeared in Harper"son
In 1926, Farrar married crossword puzzle pioneer Margaret Petherbridge. Farrar died in New York City.
He is buried at Lakeside Cemetery in Burlington, Vermont.
Achievements
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In that year his book Forgotten Shrines was awarded the Yale Younger Poets Prize. Then in 1929 he was a founder of the house of Farrar & Rinehart, with Stanley M. Rinehart Junior. and Frederick R. Rinehart, sons of Mary Roberts Rinehart who had also been at Doubleday Doran. Later, after war work in World World War II, he was a founder of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Nationality
American