| Peter Farb | |
| Birth Date: | 25 July 1929 |
| Birth Place: | New York City, United States |
| Death Place: | Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
| Nationality: | American |
Peter Farb (1929–1980) was an American author, anthropologist, linguist and naturalist.[1]
Farb was born July 25, 1929, in New York City to Solomon and Cecelia Farb. In 1950, he graduated magna cum laude from Vanderbilt University. He attended Columbia University graduate school from 1950 to 1951. He married museum director and painter Oriole Horch in 1953, and together they had two sons, Mark Daniel and Thomas Forest.[1]
Peter Farb was a freelance writer in the areas of the natural and human sciences for many years, authoring many acclaimed books, including several books for young readers, and columns in national magazines such as Better Homes and Gardens and Reader's Digest. President John F. Kennedy's Secretary of the Interior, Stewart Udall, described him as "one of the finest conservation spokesmen of our period".[1]
He was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Farb died from leukemia on April 8, 1980, in Boston, Massachusetts. At the time of his death, he had been working with Irven DeVore on a new book, The Human Experience: A Textbook of Anthropology.[1]
1950–1952: Argosy Magazine feature editor[1]
1960–1961: editor-in-chief of the publishing agent Panorama until the project sponsored by the Columbia Broadcasting System ended.[1]
1964–1971: Curator for American Indian Cultures, Riverside Museum, New York, N.Y.[1]
1971: National Book Awards Committee Judge[1]
1971–1972: visiting lecturer, Yale University[1]
1971–1978: Fellow of Calhoun College, Yale University[1]
1976: University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries Trustee[1]
1966–1971: Consultant to the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.[1]