Peter Farb

Peter Farb (1929–1980) was an American author, anthropologist, linguist and naturalist.

Biography 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. 1959: The Insect World 1959: The Story of Butterflies and Other Insects (children's book) 1961: The Story of Dams (children's book) 1962: The Story of Life: Plants and Animals Through the Ages 1962, 1977 (2nd Ed.): The Insects (Series: LIFE Nature Library) 1963, 1979 (Revised Ed.): Ecology (Series: LIFE Nature Library) 1964: The Face of North America (Young Reader's Edition) 1964, 1978 (2nd Ed.): The Land and Wildlife of North America (Series: LIFE Nature Library) 1964: Face of America: The Natural History of a Continent (selected for the Book of the Month Club and became extremely popular. Added to President John F. Kennedy's International White House Library, whereby President Kennedy presented it to the heads of a hundred foreign governments). 1966: The Atlantic Shore: Human and Natural History from Long Island to Labrador by Peter Farb and John Hay 1967: The Land, Wildlife, and Peoples of the Bible (children's book) 1968: Man's Rise to Civilization As Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State 1970: Yankee Doodle 1973: Word Play: What Happens when People Talk (selected for the Book of the Month Club) . 1978 (2nd Ed.): Man's Rise to Civilization: The Cultural Ascent of the Indians of North America 1978: The Forest (Series: LIFE Science Library) 1978: Humankind 1980: Consuming Passions - The Anthropology of Eating by Peter Farb & George J. Armelagos