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“Vardis Fisher Was Not a Mormon”
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This chapter introduces Vardis Fisher and provides a brief introduction to his writing. It includes sections on his early life and education, his brief university teaching career, his directorship of the Depression-Era Federal Writers’ Project in Idaho, and his long residency in Hangerman, Idaho, where he lived and wrote from 1939 until his death in 1968. The discussion of Fisher’s life and work is framed within the 1978 controversy between his widow, Opal Laurel Holmes, and Mormon historian Leonard Arrington over his connection to Mormonism.
Title: “Vardis Fisher Was Not a Mormon”
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This chapter introduces Vardis Fisher and provides a brief introduction to his writing.
It includes sections on his early life and education, his brief university teaching career, his directorship of the Depression-Era Federal Writers’ Project in Idaho, and his long residency in Hangerman, Idaho, where he lived and wrote from 1939 until his death in 1968.
The discussion of Fisher’s life and work is framed within the 1978 controversy between his widow, Opal Laurel Holmes, and Mormon historian Leonard Arrington over his connection to Mormonism.
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