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Thomas S. “Tom” La Farge

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Thomas S. “Tom” La Farge

Birth
Morristown, Morris County, New Jersey, USA
Death
22 Oct 2020 (aged 73)
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
Burial
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA Add to Map
Plot
Lot 44909, Grave 41
Memorial ID
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Interred on 7 Aug 2021.

American author. He authored six novels and a collection of stories. His novel The Crimson Bears: A Hundred Doors was translated into German and published in a series that contained only three other authors: JRR Tolkien, Meryn Peake, and Peter S. Beagle.

La FARGE--Tom. 73, died at home on October 22, 2020 after a long struggle with cancer. A former president of the Harvard Lampoon, he took a Ph.D in Renaissance Literature at Princeton and went on publish six novels and a collection of stories while teaching English to a generation of students at the St. Hilda's and Hugh's School and the Horace Mann School. Tom's novel The Crimson Bears/A Hundred Doors was translated into German and published in a series that contained only three other authors: JRR Tolkien, Mervyn Peake and Peter S. Beagle. With his wife, Wendy Walker, he founded the Writhing Society, a salon devoted to exploring diverse writing practices, and Proteotypes, a press associated with the Brooklyn gallery Proteus Gowanus. In the last years of his life he worked tirelessly to save a community garden from deed thieves; the Maple Street Community Garden will soon become a branch of the city parks. Besides Wendy Walker, Tom leaves a son, Paul La Farge. When circumstances permit, a memorial will be held in Brooklyn.
New York Times (NY, NY), 22 Jan 2021
Interred on 7 Aug 2021.

American author. He authored six novels and a collection of stories. His novel The Crimson Bears: A Hundred Doors was translated into German and published in a series that contained only three other authors: JRR Tolkien, Meryn Peake, and Peter S. Beagle.

La FARGE--Tom. 73, died at home on October 22, 2020 after a long struggle with cancer. A former president of the Harvard Lampoon, he took a Ph.D in Renaissance Literature at Princeton and went on publish six novels and a collection of stories while teaching English to a generation of students at the St. Hilda's and Hugh's School and the Horace Mann School. Tom's novel The Crimson Bears/A Hundred Doors was translated into German and published in a series that contained only three other authors: JRR Tolkien, Mervyn Peake and Peter S. Beagle. With his wife, Wendy Walker, he founded the Writhing Society, a salon devoted to exploring diverse writing practices, and Proteotypes, a press associated with the Brooklyn gallery Proteus Gowanus. In the last years of his life he worked tirelessly to save a community garden from deed thieves; the Maple Street Community Garden will soon become a branch of the city parks. Besides Wendy Walker, Tom leaves a son, Paul La Farge. When circumstances permit, a memorial will be held in Brooklyn.
New York Times (NY, NY), 22 Jan 2021


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