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Profile of Vardis Fisher
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Vardis Fisher |
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31st March 1895 |
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Annis, Idaho, USA |
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Vardis Fisher (Annis, Idaho, USA, 1895-1968) was a writer best known for historical novels of the old west and the monumental twelve-volume Testament of Man, novels which depicted episodes in the history of humans from cave man times to the present. He also wrote some non-fiction.
His novel Mountain Man was the basis of the movie Jeremiah Johnson. The Mothers: An American Saga of Courage told the story of the Donner Party tragedy. Children of God told the history of the Mormons. Tale of Valor is a novel recounting the history of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
God or Caesar? is his non-fiction book on how to write.
His father, a hunter, had a working relationship with the Blackfeet Indians of the area.
One of his hobbies was house building, and he built his own home in the Thousand Springs area of Idaho. He did the wiring, masonry, carpentry, and plumbing himself.
Bibliography
Novels
- Pemmican: A Novel of the Hudson's Bay Company (1956)
- Children of God
- Mountain Man: A Novel of Male and Female in the Early American West (1965)
- The Mothers: An American Saga of Courage (1943)
- Toilers of the Hills
- Dark Bridwell
- April: A Fable of Love
- Forgive Us Our Virtues
- City of Illusion
- Tale of Valor
- Vridar Hunter tetralogy:
- In Tragic Life
- Passions Spin the Plot
- We Are Betrayed
- No Villain Need Be
- Testament of Man series:
- Darkness and the Deep
- The Golden Rooms
- Intimations of Eve
- Adam and the Serpent
- The Divine Passion
- The Valley of Vision
- The Island of the Innocent
- Jesus Came Again: A Parable
Short Stories
Non-fiction
- The Neuotic Nightingale
- God or Caesar?
- Suicide or Murder?
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