Jack Farris, a novelist, poet and playwright.
Farris, a romantic literature professor at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN, for many years, wrote Into Thy Narrow Bed, a play first produced at Circuit Playhouse in Memphis in 1981.
He also wrote a clutch of novels, including "Me and Gallagher" (1982), "A Man to Ride With" (1953), "The Abiding Gospel of Claude Dee Moran Jr." (1987) and "Keeping the Faith" (1990).
His 1951 novel, "Ramey," became a 1974 NBC TV movie, "The Greatest Gift" with Glenn Ford (itself the pilot for the series, "The Holvaks").
He died on Nov. 26, 1998 in Silver Spring, MD at the age of 77.
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