Background
Farrar, John Chipman was born on February 25, 1896 in Burlington, Vermont, United States. Son of Edward Donaldson and Sally (Wright) Farrar.
Farrar, John Chipman was born on February 25, 1896 in Burlington, Vermont, United States. Son of Edward Donaldson and Sally (Wright) Farrar.
Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1918.
Reporter, New York Sunday World, 1919-1921. Editor The Bookman, 1921-1927. Became editor George H. Doran Company, 1925.
Director Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1927.
Editor, vice president, then Chairman of the Board, Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated., 1929-1944. Lecturer, Columbia, 1945-1947.
Chairman of the Board, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1946-1974.
Served as First lieutenant, United States Air Service, 1917-1919. Member National Conference Christians and Jews (chairman magazine committee 1948-1949), Federal Grand Jury Association (Executive Committee 1949). Clubs: Century, Elizabethan (New Haven, Connecticut).
Married Margaret Petherbridge, 1926. Children: John Curtis, Alison, Janice.