A noted, award-winning poet, concert soprano, and author of children's books, Norma Farber was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1909. The daughter of Augustus and Augusta Holzman, she graduated with a B.A.

from Wellesley College in 1931, where she was awarded the Phi Beta Kappa Key. The following year, she received an M.A. from Radcliffe College. In 1928 she married Sidney Farber and they had four children. Norma Farber died in 1984.

A recipient of prizes from the Poetry Society of America and the Golden Rose Award from the New England Poetry Club, Farber had her poetry published in several periodicals such as the Saturday Review, the New Yorker, and the Horn Book. Her first collection of poems, entitled Hatch, was published in 1955 and was followed by A Desperate Thing: Marriage Is A Desperate Thing (1973), Household Poems (1975), and Something Further: Poems (1979).

She also published a book...