James Scott Negley Farson was an American author and adventurer. A renowned fisherman, Farson wrote one of the classics of fishing literature, Going Fishing. The story of his life is told in his two volumes of autobiography: The Way Of a Transgressor and A Mirror for Narcissus. No. 1 on The New York Times Nonfiction best seller list for 8 weeks, from the issue of March 9, 1936. Wiki link