Born in Kensington, London, the son of American journalist Negley Farson, his childhood was mostly divided between Britain and North America.
Farson went on to become one of the most renowned foreign correspondents of his day, interviewing Gandhi in India, witnessing Gandhi's arrest in Poona, witnessing bank-robber John Dillinger's naked body in the morgue just after he had been shot down by Hoover’s men and meeting Hitler, who described Farson’s blond son, Daniel, as a “good Aryan boy.”
Daniel Boone | Daniel Webster | Daniel Patrick Moynihan | Daniel Barenboim | Daniel Defoe | Daniel Amos | Daniel | Daniel O'Connell | Daniel Libeskind | Daniel Craig | Jack Daniel's | Daniel Radcliffe | Daniel Chester French | Daniel Boulud | Daniel Dennett | Daniel Day-Lewis | Daniel Collopy | Daniel Buren | Daniel Auber | Daniel Johnston | Daniel Ellsberg | Daniel Stern | Daniel O'Donnell | Daniel Burnham | Daniel Nestor | Daniel Henney | Daniel Boone (TV series) | Daniel Spoerri | Daniel Menche | Daniel Levitin |
Born in London, son of a watch repairer in Mill Lane, NW6, he became a member of the 1950s Soho set alongside John Minton, Francis Bacon and Daniel Farson.