This article is about the Tennessee-based writer. For the New York-based writer, see John Farris (poet and novelist). For the Canadian politician, see John Wallace de Beque Farris. For the Canadian lawyer and judge, see John Lauchlan Farris.
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John Farris
Born
John Lee Farris (1936-07-26) July 26, 1936 (age 87) Jefferson City, Missouri
Occupation
Author
Nationality
American
Alma mater
Rhodes College
Genre
Suspense, horror
Notable works
The Fury
Spouse
Kathleen Mary Ann Pasante
Children
4
John Lee Farris (born July 26, 1936) is an American novelist, screenwriter, and playwright (with occasional short stories and poetry) who first achieved best-seller status at age twenty-three and is most famous as the author of The Fury (Playboy Press, 1976). He is also known largely for his work in the southern Gothic genre.
southern Gothic genre. Farris was born in Jefferson City, Missouri, to parents John Linder Farris (1909–1982) and Eleanor Carter Farris (1905–1984). Raised...
John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American filmmaker, composer, and actor. Most commonly associated with horror, action, and science...
ISBN 9781578065165. Farris, John. The Demolished Man: Screenplay. Retrieved October 2, 2012. Dumas, Chris (2013). "Interview with JohnFarris". Arrow Films...
in employment law. Farris was appointed to the panel of counsel operated by the Equality and Human Rights Commission in 2015. Farris worked as a journalist...
Pop Vocal Performance (1996). Farris was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, the daughter of Larraine (Wall) and Richard Farris, both of whom had musical talents...
Dead Delilah is a 1972 American slasher film written and directed by JohnFarris and starring Agnes Moorehead, Will Geer, Michael Ansara, Dennis Patrick...
year, with Farris beating Savage by a few weeks. Farris considers Harley Race to be the greatest professional wrestler of all time. Farris has stated...
Newton Farris Sr., died on December 30, 2017, at the age of 83. King Farris's death was announced by her family attorney, Antavius Weems. Farris died in...
because for Harris, "the very act of writing is a kind of torment". Novelist John Dunning said of Harris, "All he is is a talent of the first rank." In 2019...
Elizabeth Ashley, Ben Gazzara and Michael Douglas. It was adapted from JohnFarris' 1967 novel of the same name. Helen Connelly is a woman whose nephew...
Corman (1998) Edward Gorey / Charles L. Grant (1999) Nigel Kneale (2000) JohnFarris (2001) Stephen King / J. N. Williamson (2002) Martin H. Greenberg / Anne...
appointed Chief Justice of British Columbia. Farris was the son of John Wallace de Beque Farris and Evlyn Fenwick Farris. The couple had three other children:...
Lindsay Farris is an Australian Māori actor, writer, producer, and musician. Farris has worked for several Australian theatre companies, including the...
in Whites Cove, New Brunswick, the son of JohnFarris and Sarah McLean, and educated in Fredericton. Farris married Louise Hay. He served on the province's...
Nicodemus Nicoludis, which has or will publish work by Ishmael Reed, JohnFarris, Masha Tupitsyn, Paul Schrader, Mike Sacks, Stacy Szymaszek, Blake Butler...
compilation album Foxtrot, whose proceeds went to the treatment of musician John Balance's alcoholism. He has cited Thomas Bernhard, William S. Burroughs...
The gallery has housed or exhibited artists including: Lizzi Bougatsos JohnFarris Leo Fitzpatrick David Hammons Richard Kern Chris Molnar Raymond Pettibon...
celebrate 28 years of her sobriety. Rice cited Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, John Milton, Ernest Hemingway, William Shakespeare, the Brontë sisters, Jean-Paul...
came to identify himself as homosexual by 18 or 19. His relationship with John Gregson lasted from 1975 until 1986. He later spent 13 years with photographer...
In 1972, the short story "The Fifth Quarter" was published under the name John Swithen (a Carrie character) in Cavalier. Charlie the Choo-Choo: From the...
World War, and his mother was an Edwardian beauty who was painted by Sir John Lavery, Oswald Birley, and Olive Snell, and sculpted by Clare Sheridan. Lee's...
Transgressions: Volume Two, a short story collection by Stephen King and JohnFarris Transgressive fiction, a literary style Transgressive art Transgression...
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