Margaret Petherbridge Farrar

Margaret Petherbridge Farrar (born March 23, 1897, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died June 11, 1984, New York City) was an American editor whose enormously popular series of crossword puzzle books capitalized on the nascent American passion for those diversions. Margaret Petherbridge was educated at the Berkeley Institute in Brooklyn and at Smith College, from which she graduated in 1919. After a year as a secretary in a bank, she obtained a position with the New York...