Firth Haring Fabend

The Best of Intentions

THE BEST OF INTENTIONS: “So sensitively written, final cruel vengeance comes as a searing shock.” Daily Telegraph. “Devastating climax, powerful and impressive in its simplicity.” New Haven Register. “A special talent for characterization and dialog.” Publishers Weekly. “Consistently elegant with dashes of unmalicious wit.” London Times.

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