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Paul Farmer Jr. was born in North Adams, Massachusetts in 1959. He was the second child of six children. His mother, Ginny, was a farmer's daughter who quit college early to marry. His father, Paul Sr., was a very large man who was an athlete.
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In 1966 the Warden moved his growing family south to Birmingham, Alabama
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Farmer started his own club at school but none of his classmates showed up. His family became his club and he would show them drawings of reptiles and amphibians and explain them.
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The Warden found a job at a public school in Florida in 1971 and they moved into a trailer park
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Every time the family pulled into the campground, there was a 50/50 chance that they would get shocked. It made them afraid to do it and move around because if they moved they would have to do it again.
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His first job was picking citrus, and while doing that he was exposed to Haitians and Creole.
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Farmer was president of his senior class and received a full scholarship to Duke.
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After his first semester, Farmer started getting A's, so he spent two seasons in Paris. By the time he came back, he spoke French fluently.
