Last Updated: 25 Mar, 2023 | Views: 398
Age: 73
Profession: Writer
Other Profession(s): Author, Essayist
Famous For: His Popular Historical Novels Of The Old West
Higher Education: Graduated
About (Profile/Biography):
Vardis Alvero Fisher was born on March 31, 1895 and died on July 9, 1968. He wrote popular historical novels set in the Old West as an American writer from Idaho. Fisher taught English at the University of Utah and Washington Square College of New York University after studying at the University of Utah and the University of Chicago.
Career:
1925: Fisher began teaching at the University of Utah. During the 1926-1927 school year, he taught freshman English to Wallace Stegner.
Fisher began his career as a regionalist. But, according to Attebery at the College of Idaho, he was an inspiring writer because of his knowledge of his region's history, folkways, and dialect.
1928: There was great success for Toilers of the Hills, considered the first important work of Rocky Mountain fiction.
1931: Among the ten greatest novels in American literature, Dark Bridwall was cited by Frederick Manfred.
After his second summer teaching at the University of Montana, he was not asked to return to the school because of economic necessity.
Fisher primarily wrote the Idaho Guide during his time with the Federal Writers' Project, a Works Progress Administration program.
1937: April: A Fable of Love was published by Doubleday. Among the books Fisher had written, this was his favorite.
Other Works:
1928: Toilers of the Hills
1931: Dark Bridwell
1937: April: A Fable of Love
1938: Forgive Us Our Virtues: A Comedy of Evasions
1939: Children of God
1941: City of Illusion
Death:
A combination of alcohol and sleeping pills led to Fisher's death on July 9, 1968.
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