Papers, 1922-1970.

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Papers, 1922-1970.

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Correspondence, interviews, articles, scholarly works by and about Vardis Fisher; correspondence, notes and other papers about the Federal Writers Project; and other papers compiled and collected by R.W. Taber as part of his research on Fisher and the Writers' Project. Also, letters from Fisher and his wife, Opal Laurel Holmes Fisher, to Jasper and Inez Puckett McEwen. Other correspondents are Frederick Manfred and Alan Swallow.

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McEwen, Inez Puckett

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Inez Puckett McEwen, 1899-1987, was born in Oyens, Iowa. Her parents then moved to Wyoming, Idaho, and California while she was still a child. McEwen went to school in California, attending USC, Pomona, and Scripps, and earning a B.A. in dramatics and also winning an art scholarship. After her formal education, she became a newspaper reporter and feature writer, radio reporter and private speech instructor. She also taught school both in California and later in Alaska. In 1943 McEwen moved to a ...

Federal Writers' Project (Idaho)

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Fisher, Opal L. (Opal Laurel), 1913-

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Vardis Fisher, novelist, essayist, and short story writer, was born on March 31, 1895, in Annis, Idaho. He was raised in the Antelope Hills of eastern Idaho, graduated from Rigby High School, and received a bachelor's degree from the University of Utah in 1920. He received a master's and doctorate from the University of Chicago. After teaching at the University of Utah and New York University, he returned to Idaho in 1931 to devote full time to writing. During the Depression Fisher ...

Manfred, Frederick Feikema, 1912-1994

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American author. First critically acclaimed novel published in 1944. The majority of his stories and novels are set in the region he named "Siouxland", an area bordering the Sioux River in the Dakotas, Minnesota and Iowa. Frederick Manfred died September 7, 1994. From the description of Frederick Manfred papers, 1912-1994. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 62685104 Frederick Manfred was born Frederick Feikema on January 6, 1912 on a far...

Fisher, Vardis, 1895-1968

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Resident of Hagerman, Idaho; novelist and director of Idaho Writers' Project for the Works Progress Administration. From the description of Collection, 1927-1972. (University of Idaho Library). WorldCat record id: 42927292 American teacher, poet, novelist; taught at University of Utah and New York University. From the description of Letter to Robert Newton Linscott [manuscript], 1930 November 5. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647812269 Ame...

Taber, Ronald Warren, 1942-

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Swallow, Alan, 1915-1966

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Swallow was born in 1915; BA, English, Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, 1937; MA and Ph. D, Louisiana State Univ.; taught at Univ. of New Mexico and Western State College before becoming full-time professor at Univ. of Denver; helped to found Univ. of Denver Press, 1947; created publishing company, Alan Swallow, Publisher, in 1954; later imprints included Big Mountain Press, Sage Books, and Swallow Paperbooks; published over four hundred titles, primarily of poetry, criticism, and Western Americana; d...