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Finis Farr

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Occupation
  
Writer, biographer

Genre
  
Biography

Born
  
Finis Farr December 31, 1904 Wilson County, Tennessee, United States (
1904-12-31
)

Notable works
  
Margaret Mitchell of Atlanta (1976)

Died
  
3 January 1982, Portland, Maine, United States

Books
  
Chicago; a Personal History of America's Most American City

Finis Farr (December 31, 1904 – January 3, 1982) was an American author 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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