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Person Detail: Richard George Farina
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| Full Name: Richard George Farina | ||
| Biography: (1937 - 1966) Writer, folksinger. Richard Farina was a member of the counterculture scene of the early- to mid-sixties. He wrote in Greenwich Village and married Carolyn Hester, a successful folksinger. His friendship with Bob Dylan is a central topic of David Hajdu's Pulitzer Prize-winning book 'Positively 4th Street.' |
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| 1937 |
Kings County Richard George Farina was born March 8, 1937 in Brooklyn, New York. |
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| 1966 |
(Unknown) County Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me (Pub: Random House ISBN: 1131287584 / 978-1131287584) Novel. |
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| 1966 |
(Unknown) County Richard Farina died in a motorcycle accident in Carmel Valley, California, on April 30, 1966. |
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| 1969 |
(Unknown) County Long Time Coming And A Long Time Gone (Pub: New York: Random House ISBN: 0394433963 / 978-0394433967) Short fiction and nonfiction. |
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| 1966 |
(Unknown) County Richard Farina was interred at Monterey City Cemetery, Monterey, Monterey County, California. |
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Kings County Mr. Farina grew up in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, and attended Brooklyn Technical High School. |
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Tompkins County Mr. Farina earned an academic scholarship to Cornell University where he started as an Engineering major. Later he switched to English. While at Cornell he published short stories for some of the local literary magazines as well as for "The Transatlantic Review"and "Mademoiselle." Mr. Farina dropped out just before graduation in 1959. While at Cornell he bacame close friends of Thomas Pynchon. |
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New York County Mr. Farina lived in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York. |
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