John C. Farrar

John Chipman Farrar (February 25, 1896 – November 5, 1974) was an American poet, editor, 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.

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 was a member of the Skull and Bones Society.

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 and 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 World War II, he was a founder of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

His work appeared in Harper's.

In 1926, Farrar married crossword puzzle pioneer Margaret Petherbridge.

Farrar died in New York City.

Recognition
Also in 1919, his book Forgotten Shrines was awarded the Yale Younger Poets Prize.

Publications

 * 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
 * The Bookman Anthology of Essays, editor, George H. Doran company, 1923
 * Songs for Johnny-Jump-Up, R.R. Smith, Inc., 1930