Later, she also produced similar books for Pocket Books as well as a Crossword Puzzle Omnibus series. The book sold nearly 400,000 copies the first year, and Farrar continued to edit puzzle books for Simon and Schuster at the rate of about two a year. Publisher Simon and Schuster was so dubious about its success that they issued it under another imprint. Gregory Hartswick and Prosper Buranelli, edited the Cross Word Puzzle Book, the first of its kind.
By 1924, crosswords had become a national pastime, and Farrar and two colleagues from the paper, F. Before her retirement in 1968, she had edited over 130 collections of puzzles.Ī history major at Smith College, Farrar worked in a bank before finding a position with the New York World, where, as secretary to the Sunday editor, she was placed in charge of the weekly crossword puzzle, a feature the World pioneered in 1913. Once called the "world's supreme authority on crosswords," Margaret Farrar was the first editor of the much-revered crossword puzzles of The New York Times and also collaborated on the first Cross Word Puzzle Book. from Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1919 married John Chipman Farrar (a publisher, co-founder of Farrar, Straus, and author), on children: John Farrar Alison Farrar Janice Farrar.
Born Margaret Petherbridge on March 23, 1897, in Brooklyn, New York died on June 11, 1984, in New York, New York daughter and one of three children of Henry Wade (an executive with the National Licorice Company) and Margaret Elizabeth (Furey) Petherbridge graduated from Berkeley Institute, Brooklyn, New York, 1916 B.A. American crossword-puzzle editor for the New York Times.
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