American. Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, Farson was raised by his eccentric grandfather, the Civil War General James Negley. He was educated at Andover and read civil engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He was expelled from this institution and emigrated to England. He went into journalism and travelled to Russia, being present in Petrograd the day the Bolshevik Revolution broke out. Farson went on to become one of the most renowned foreign correspondents of his day, interviewing Gandhi in India, witnessing Gandhi's arrest in Poona, witnessing bank-robber John Dillinger's naked body in the morgue just after he had been shot down by Hoovers men and meeting Hitler. Author of `Going fishing' (Source: Wikipedia, accessed 14/09/2011 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negley_Farson).
Farson, Negley James, 1890-1960
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Episodes in another dimension
Date: 2008
From: Hammond, Bryn, 1923-2008 : Literary papers
Reference: MSDL-1437
Description: Literary draft comprising 11 chapters of Hammond's unpublished manuscript `Episodes in another dimension'. Theme of the work is biographical portraits of well known fisherman and how all fisherman are "of a singularly special kind". As examples Hammond's chapters include biographies of Zane Grey, Henry Thoreau, Ernest Hemingway, Herman Melville, Sven Berlin, Negley Farson, Jonathan Raban and William Scrope. Quantity: 11 Electronic document(s).