He married museum director and painter Oriole Horch in 1953, and together they had two sons, Mark Daniel and Thomas Forest.
[1] Peter Farb was a freelance writer in the areas of the natural and human sciences for many years, authoring many acclaimed books, including several books for young readers, and columns in national magazines such as Better Homes and Gardens and Reader's Digest.
President John F. Kennedy's Secretary of the Interior, Stewart Udall, described him as "one of the finest conservation spokesmen of our period".
At the time of his death, he had been working with Irven DeVore on a new book, The Human Experience: A Textbook of Anthropology.
[1] 1950–1952: Argosy Magazine feature editor[1] 1960–1961: editor-in-chief of the publishing agent Panorama until the project sponsored by the Columbia Broadcasting System ended.