Poet, concert singer, actress, novelist, translator; wife, mother, grandmother, widow, Norma Holzman Farber (1909 -1984) was the author of more than thirty books. Her poems appeared in periodicals including The Christian Science Monitor, The Nation, The New Yorker, and The New York Times; artists illustrating her books included Petra Mathers, Arnold Lobel, Trina Schart Hyman, and Tomie dePaola; composers including Daniel Pinkham set her words to music.
At eighteen, in 1927, Norma Holzman married Sidney Farber, pioneer in the chemotherapy of cancer, legendary for his care of the ill. He died in 1973.
