Barry Farrell
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Farrell, Barry
Barry Farrell was one of the pre-eminent American journalists of the 1960s through the 1980s. He 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 later served as Time’s correspondent in Paris. He became a staff writer for its sister publication Life in 1968, where he wrote a column every other week, alternating with Joan Didion He moved to Los Angeles in the early 1970s where he was West Coast Editor of Harper's. He also taught writing, including at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
He interviewed Buckminster Fuller for Playboy magazine in February 1972. He wrote Pat and Roald, the biographical story of author Roald Dahl and his wife actress Patricia Neal. A collection of his essays, How I Got to Be This Hip, edited by Steve Hawk, was published in 1999. He was a close friend of Joan Didion and her husband, John Gregory Dunne.
A native of Seattle, he graduated from the University of Washington in 1956. His first writing job was at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Barry Farrell died at age 49 in the Veterans Administration Hospital, West Los Angeles in 1984, after suffering a heart attack. He was survived by his wife, Marcia, two daughters, Anne and Joan; his mother, Marietta Farrell of Seattle; a brother, Dr. Dennis Farrell of San Francisco, and a sister, Colleen Lescia of Palo Alto, Calif.
Books • author Barry Farrell | title Pat and Roald | publisher Kingsport Press | year 1969 . http://lccn.loc.gov/68028556 … Roald Dahl author Barry Farrell | Steve Hawk editor title How I Got to be This Hip | publisher WSP| year 1999 . ISBN 10 # 0671028103 LCCN: 00268647 Articles author Barry Farrell | title Playboy Interview: R. Buckminster Fuller | publisher Playboy Magazine | year 1972, February, volume 19, Number 2, page 59. www.playboy.com
References
www.ucsb.edu Obituary, New York Times, December 13, 1984 http://www.nytimes.com/1984/12/13/obituaries/barry-farrell.html Harper’s http://www.harpers.org/subjects/BarryFarrell
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Contributions: Hawk, Steve, 1955-
By statement: Barry Farrell ; edited by Steve Hawk ; introduction by John Gregory Dunne.
Language: English
Pagination: xiv, 232 p. ; ISBN 10: 0671028103 LCCN: 00268647
LC: AC8 .F275 1999 OCLC: 40920770