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Facts and Events
| Name |
Vardis Alvero Fisher |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[3][4] |
31 Mar 1895 |
Annis, Jefferson, Idaho, United States |
| Census[1] |
1900 |
Menan, Jefferson, Idaho, United States |
| Census[2] |
1910 |
Poplar, Bonneville, Idaho, United States |
| Marriage |
10 Sep 1917 |
Bonneville, Idaho, United Statesto Leona McMurtrey |
| Residence |
1919 |
Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United Stateswith Leona McMurtrey |
| Census |
1920 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States1175 East 7th South
with Leona McMurtrey |
| Occupation? |
1925–1928 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United StatesAssistant professor of English at the University of Utah |
| Marriage |
2 Oct 1928 |
to Margaret Trusler |
| Census |
1930 |
New York City, New York, United StatesManhattan
with Margaret Trusler |
| Occupation? |
1928–1931 |
New York City, New York, United StatesAssistant professor of English New York University |
| Occupation? |
1932–1933 |
Bozeman, Gallatin, Montana, United StatesProfessor at Montana State University |
| Occupation? |
From 1935 to 1939 |
Director of the Idaho Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration |
| Marriage |
1940 |
to Opal Laurel Holmes |
| Census |
1940 |
Antelope, Butte, Idaho, United Stateswith Opal Laurel Holmes |
| Residence |
1942 |
Hagerman, Gooding, Idaho, United Stateswith Opal Laurel Holmes |
| Death[5] |
9 Jul 1968 |
Hagerman, Gooding, Idaho, United States |
| Reference Number? |
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Q2510607? |
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Vardis Alvero Fisher (March 31, 1895 – July 9, 1968) was an American writer from Idaho who wrote popular historical novels of the Old West. After studying at the University of Utah and the University of Chicago, Fisher taught English at the University of Utah and then at the Washington Square College of New York University until 1931. He worked with the Federal Writer's Project to write the Works Project Administration The Idaho Guide, which was published in 1937. In 1939, Fisher wrote Children of God, a historical novel focused on the early Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The novel won the Harper Prize. In 1940, Fisher moved to Hagerman, Idaho, and spent the next twenty years writing the 12-volume Testament of Man (1943–1960) series of novels, depicting the history of humans from cavemen to civilization. Fisher's novel Mountain Man (1965) was adapted in the film Jeremiah Johnson (1972).
Fisher is often grouped with disaffected Mormon writers in Mormon fiction. Leonard Arrington and his graduate student John Haupt wrote that Fisher was sympathetic towards Mormonism, an idea that Fisher's widow, Opal Laurel Holmes, strongly repudiated. A more recent paper by Michael Austin suggests that Fisher's work was influenced by residual "scars" of his family heritage and Mormon upbringing and that these scars led to his incorporating into many of his novels the theme of a religious unbeliever trying to find ways to negotiate a life within a religious community.
References
- ↑ United States. 1900 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T623).
Year: 1900; Census Place: Menan, Fremont, Idaho; Roll: 232; Page: 6B; Enumeration District: 0054; FHL microfilm: 1240232
- ↑ United States. 1910 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T624).
Year: 1910; Census Place: Poplar, Bingham, Idaho; Roll: T624_222; Page: 6A; Enumeration District: 0054; FHL microfilm: 1374235.
- ↑ United States. World War II Draft Registration Cards.
The National Archives Pacific Alaska Region (Seattle); Seattle, Washington; Fourth Registration Draft Cards (WWII); State Headquarters: Idaho; Record Group Name: Records of the Selective Service System; Record Group Number: 147; Archive Number: 563870; Box Number: 16.
- ↑ Idaho, Birth Index, 1861-1912, Stillbirth Index, 1905-1962.
Certificate Year:1895, Certificate Number:D53-0423
- ↑ Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index: Death Master File, database. (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service).
Number: 518-10-7936; Issue State: Idaho; Issue Date: Before 1951.
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