Thomas farber biography

A Lover's Quarrel

INTRODUCTION to A Lover's QUarrel

by Thomas Farber

In 1984, about to turn forty, release date of my new book approaching, I learned there'd be a New York Times review written by the frequently merciless Anatole Broyard.

Blessedly-- and perhaps because I lived far outside New York's literary community-- Broyard found Curves of Pursuit "Venturesome to an almost foolhardy degree"...[with] a beautiful feeling of everything coming together in space and time-- and yes, even in a kind of love."

I read Broyard's piece at my parents' apartment in Cambridge, back once again from California.

Thomas Farber has been a Fulbright Scholar and Rockefeller Foundation Scholar.

Thomas Farber has been a Fulbright Scholar and Rockefeller Foundation Scholar.

Thomas Farber has written for the San Francisco Chronicle.

Biography: Besides my books—short fiction, novels, creative nonfiction, the epigrammatic, and screenplays—I'm Editor-in-Chief of El Leon Literary Arts, an.

Thomas Farber has been a Fulbright Scholar, recipient of the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize, and Rockefeller Foundation scholar at Bellagio.

Although Farber was born and raised in Boston and graduated from Harvard University, shortly after earning his degree he relocated to California, where he has.

My father had died a decade earlier; now my mother was next door in Mount Auburn Hospital. For three months, my sisters, brother, and I had been taking turns overseeing her relentless decline.

"Isn't your novel coming out soon?" my mother asked one day, holding the oxygen mask away from nose and mouth.

"You haven't shown me the galleys.&qu