| Finis Farr | |
|---|---|
| Born | Finis Farr (1904-12-31)December 31, 1904 Wilson County, Tennessee, United States |
| Died | January 3, 1982(1982-01-03) (aged 77) Portland, Maine |
| Occupation | Writer, biographer |
| Genre | Biography |
| Notable works | Margaret Mitchell of Atlanta (1976) |
Finis Farr (December 31, 1904 – January 3, 1982) was an American writer and biographer.
Works
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1961), biography of an architect Frank Lloyd Wright (Charles Scribner's Sons)
- Black Champion: The Life and Times of Jack Jackson (1964), biography of the boxer Jack Johnson
- The Elephant Valley (1967)
- FDR (1972), biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt (Arlington House)
- O'Hara: A Biography (1973), biography of John O'Hara (Little, Brown and Company)
- Chicago: A Personal History of America's Most American City (1973) (Arlington House)
- Fair enough: The life of Westbrook Pegler (1975), biography of Westbrook Pegler (Artington House)
- Margaret Mitchell of Atlanta: the author of Gone With the Wind (1976), biography of Margaret Mitchell (Avon)
- Richenbacker's Luck: An American Life (1979), biography of Eddie Rickenbacker
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