Lawrence F. Farrar

Lawrence Farrar served multiple diplomatic tours in Japan, Europe, and Washington, DC. Government assignments took him to thirty-five countries. He says, “I spent a lot of time climbing in and out of airplanes in places I’d never heard of growing up in Minnesota. I have stories to share, so I’m writing.” Farrar is a member of a cadre of Foreign Service “Japan Hands.” Not surprisingly, many of his seventy-five published stories have a Japan connection. He adds, “I am especially drawn to stories of people who find themselves encountering the cultural norms of a foreign society.”