Paul B. La Farge was an award winning American novelist, essayist, and academic who was the author of the novels The Night Ocean, The Artist of the Missing, Haussmann, or the Distinction, and Luminous Airplanes. He also wrote essays and stories that appeared in publications like The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Harper's, McSweeney’s, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and other magazines.
La Farge was born in in New York City, and was a graduate of Yale University. After gra... morePaul B. La Farge was an award winning American novelist, essayist, and academic who was the author of the novels The Night Ocean, The Artist of the Missing, Haussmann, or the Distinction, and Luminous Airplanes. He also wrote essays and stories that appeared in publications like The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Harper's, McSweeney’s, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and other magazines.
La Farge was born in in New York City, and was a graduate of Yale University. After graduating he taught writing at Bard College, Wesleyan University and at Columbia. From 2016 to 2017, he was the Picador Guest Professor for Literature at the University of Leipzig's Institute for American Studies in Germany. From July 2020 to his death in 2023 he was on the faculty at Bennington College. La Farge's debut novel was The Artist of the Missing published in 1999. Two years later he released Haussmann, or the Distinction. He won several awards for his literary works, including the winner of two California Book Awards and the Bard Fiction Prize.
