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Biographical
John Hamilton Farr is the author of TAOS SOUL: Love Stories, Heroes, and Wild Adventure and BUFFALO LIGHTS: Maryland to New Mexico, as well as dozens of columns for Horse Fly, a monthly Taos newspaper. He has published online relentlessly since 1997 and currently writes at 7,000 feet from Taos, New Mexico, U.S.A.
John's official bio from his main website, FarrFeed.com:
Iwas born in Bryan, Texas on the day Nagasaki was nuked. The oldest of five children in an Air Force family that moved over 40 times before I graduated from high school, I’ve lived in Texas, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington D.C., Virginia, Germany, Texas (again!), Maryland, and New Mexico. Things I’ll never forget include the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, Yellowstone, Acadia, Big Bend, the Rocky Mountains, Taos Pueblo, and the fact that Jerry Garcia died on my birthday.
I’ve walked the streets of Abilene, Austin, Des Moines, Dubuque, New York, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Venice, Florence, Vienna, Munich, Leipzig, Berlin, San Miguel de Allende, Chestertown, Baltimore, San Francisco, Santa Fe, and Taos; worked as a college teacher, laborer, groundskeeper, office manager, cartoonist, songwriter, musician, painter, sculptor, Internet editor, Web designer, and columnist. I’ve been to operas and hoe-downs; seen Dylan, the Sex Pistols, and the Clash; and once watched Captain Sensible do an encore in the nude. I’ve capsized in the river, gotten sunburned on the beach, wandered in the desert, hiked in the mountains, dug myself out of the snow, seen Halley’s Comet, and gone loco in the woods. I’ve built my own boat and worn out at least two dozen cars. I have an analyst in Zurich, a graphic designer in Brisbane, two degrees, and most of my own teeth. The only computers I’ll ever use are made by Apple, and I’ve been married for nearly 30 years.
