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The son of an English mother and an American father, the foreign correspondent, big game hunter and alcoholic Negley Farson, Daniel Farson became the youngest-ever Parliamentary and Lobby correspondent at the age of 17, just after the war. At Cambridge his student magazine helped launch Ken Tynan. His first job…
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Daniel Farson’s Never a Normal Man is a picaresque, candid, and richly anecdotal autobiography of one of the great Soho characters of the 1950s and 1960s. The book’s underbelly is the nether world of Soho, full of misfits and slippery characters, where Farson found a spiritual home with friends such as Francis Bacon, Caitlin Thomas, and John Deakin. A classic chronicle of post-war bohemian life, and a fitting memorial to a man who chose to fail rather than be caught in a rut.
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