Firth Haring Fabend

Only a Paper Life

A coming-of-age story in a world long gone, but still oddly unchanged in unsettling ways.


FROM THOSE WHO WERE THERE:

"Imagine my delight to find your new book. I could barely put it down and read through the night."

"It was lovely to read your evocation of our Cambridge."

"I spent a nostalgia-soaked and joyful weekend with your memoir. Thanks for stripping away some fifty years of living and putting us all back in those distant times of indecision and learning."

"It's a little masterpiece. I know nothing else like it."

Historical Fiction
Land So Fair
A family saga set in eighteenth-century New York and New Jersey
Fiction
The Best of Intentions
A story of the developing passion between unlikely opposites.
A Perfect Stranger
Dilemma of modern woman
The Woman Who Went Away
“An effective horror tale, psychologically well grounded, with a Deliverance undertone.”
--Kirkus Reviews
American History
Zion on the Hudson: Dutch New York and New Jersey in the Age of Revivals
A study of how one mainstream Protestant denomination dealt with the transformative events of the evangelical era.
A Dutch Family in the Middle Colonies, 1660-1800
A study of a large colonial American family over five generations.


Poetry
A Catch of Grandmothers
Vignettes of Firth's nine Haring grandmothers going back to the first, born in New Amsterdam in 1641.
Memoir
Only a Paper Life, A Memoir
Memoir of Junior Year Abroad, England, 1957-1958