Box 2
Contains 11 Results:
Biographical Material
This folder contains articles and publications concerning Fisher's life and work. Also included is the un cashed check payment of the wager between Snell and Fisher on the literary career and merit of both Steinbeck and Hemingway.
Column Newspaper Clippings
This subseries contains spirited correspondence concerning Fisher's Testament of Man book series, Snell's review of his work, a debate over the authorial merit of Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck, and general topics. Also included are clippings of Fisher's column, biographical material, interviews, publication notices, reviews, two small publications, and correspondence with Fisher's widow, Opal Laurel Holmes Fisher.
Vardis Fisher Correspondence, 1934-1968
This subseries contains spirited correspondence concerning Fisher's Testament of Man book series, Snell's review of his work, a debate over the authorial merit of Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck, and general topics. Also included are clippings of Fisher's column, biographical material, interviews, publication notices, reviews, two small publications, and correspondence with Fisher's widow, Opal Laurel Holmes Fisher.
Opal Fisher Correspondence, 1968
This subseries contains spirited correspondence concerning Fisher's Testament of Man book series, Snell's review of his work, a debate over the authorial merit of Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck, and general topics. Also included are clippings of Fisher's column, biographical material, interviews, publication notices, reviews, two small publications, and correspondence with Fisher's widow, Opal Laurel Holmes Fisher.
Vardis Fisher and Harry Schwartz Correspondence, 1974
This folder contains published correspondence in "The Bookmark."
Correspondence
This subseries contains spirited correspondence concerning Fisher's Testament of Man book series, Snell's review of his work, a debate over the authorial merit of Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck, and general topics. Also included are clippings of Fisher's column, biographical material, interviews, publication notices, reviews, two small publications, and correspondence with Fisher's widow, Opal Laurel Holmes Fisher.
Richard J. Pead Correspondence, 1952-1955
This folder contains correspondence with George Snell regarding Pead's biography of Fisher.
Interviews of Vardis Fisher
This subseries contains spirited correspondence concerning Fisher's Testament of Man book series, Snell's review of his work, a debate over the authorial merit of Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck, and general topics. Also included are clippings of Fisher's column, biographical material, interviews, publication notices, reviews, two small publications, and correspondence with Fisher's widow, Opal Laurel Holmes Fisher.
Publication Notices
This subseries contains spirited correspondence concerning Fisher's Testament of Man book series, Snell's review of his work, a debate over the authorial merit of Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck, and general topics. Also included are clippings of Fisher's column, biographical material, interviews, publication notices, reviews, two small publications, and correspondence with Fisher's widow, Opal Laurel Holmes Fisher.
Fisher Publications, 1942-1953
This folder contians two short publications: "The Novelist and His Background," Western Folklore, January 1953, and "Excerpt from a Letter from the Author to the Publisher," 21 December 1942.