Michael Farber

{{Short description|American author and sports journalist}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2021}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Michael Farber

| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|September 1951}}

| birth_place =

| occupation = Journalist, author

| employer = Sports Illustrated
Montreal Gazette

}}

Michael Farber (born September 1951){{Cite web|url=https://jeffpearlman.com/michael-farber/|title = Michael Farber|date = September 8, 2015}} is an American author and sports journalist, and was a writer with Sports Illustrated from 1994 to 2014.{{cite web|url=https://www.si.com/vault-authors/michael-farber|title=Vault: Michael Farber|website=SI.com|publisher=Sports Illustrated|access-date=December 25, 2017}} He covered mostly ice hockey and Olympic sports. Before 1994, Farber spent 15 years as a sports columnist for the Montreal Gazette, and previously wrote for the Bergen Record, and the Sun Bulletin.{{cite web|url=https://www.si.com/author/michael-farber|title=Michael Farber|last=|first=|date=|website=SI.com|publisher=Sports Illustrated|access-date=December 25, 2017}} Farber is a commentator for CJAD 800 AM in Montreal, and on The Sports Network's The Reporters.

Farber grew up in Bayonne, New Jersey.Farber, Michael. [https://www.si.com/vault/2007/11/12/101173278/garden-state "Garden State: Returning to his hometown, Bayonne, the author marvels at the incongruity of an ultra exclusive golf club sharing a zip code with a city that's best known as a punch line"], Sports Illustrated, November 12, 2007. Accessed December 26, 2017. "Bayonne is my hometown, in that I lived there for the formative years between fifth and 10th grade and the summers afterward." He graduated from Rutgers University in 1973, and is a Phi Beta Kappa Society member. He relocated to Montreal in 1979. He won the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award in 2003, and is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame selection committee.{{cite web|url=http://www.hhof.com/htmlInduct/indselect.shtml|title=Selection Committee|website=Legends of Hockey|publisher=Hockey Hall of Fame|access-date=December 25, 2017}}