John Farris (poet and novelist)

This article is about the New York-based writer. For the Tennessee-based writer, see John Farris.

John Farris (1940–2016) was an American poet and novelist who lived in the East Village neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan. He is the author of a volume of verse It's not About Time (1993). He is the also author of the novel The Ass's Tale, which won the 2013 Acker Award in fiction.[1]

Farris was a member of the rag tag literary collective "The Unbearables". Early in his career he spent some time in the orbit around the Civil Rights leader Malcolm X.[2]

He died of a heart attack in January 2016 at his flat at the Bullet Space collective in the East Village.[3]

  1. ^ Antonella Francesca. "The Acker Awards, 2013, John Farris, fiction writer, poet, artist". YouTube. Retrieved 2016-02-14.
  2. ^ Baraka, Amiri (April 2012). The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones. Chicago Review Press. ISBN 9781613745892.
  3. ^ "John Farris, bohemian poet who chronicled life on Lower East Side". thevillager.com. 2016-02-11.