Joseph M. Flora papers relating to Vardis Fisher, 1961-2009.

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Joseph M. Flora papers relating to Vardis Fisher, 1961-2009.

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Approximately 50 letters (1961-1968) to Flora from Vardis Fisher on personal, biographical, literary, and political topics, beginning in 1961 when Flora was writing his Ph.D. dissertation on Fisher and continuing until Fisher's death; together with letters to Flora from Fisher's widow Opal Fisher and other scholars and critics of Fisher's work; and Flora's writings and research files on Fisher.

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Boise State University, Albertsons Library

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Boise State University, Albertsons Library

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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 ...

Flora, Joseph M.

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Joseph M. Flora is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and biographer of Vardis Fisher. In addition to his work with Fisher and western writers, Professor Flora has sat on the editorial boards of Studies in Short Fiction, The Southern Literary Journal, The Thomas Wolfe Review, and The Hemingway Review . He has served as president of The Western Literature Association, The Thomas Wolfe Society, the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, and the South Atl...

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...