Rudolph Fisher
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Rudolph Fisher (1897 - 1934) was an African-American writer
His first published work, "City of Refuge", appeared in Atlantic Monthly of February 1925. He went on in 1932 to write The Conjure-Man Dies, the first black detective novel. Fisher was also a physician (with a specialty in radiology), dramatist, musician and orator. Fisher was an active participant in the Harlem Renaissance, primarily as a novelist, but also as a musician.
Biography
Born in Washington, DC in the late nineteenth century, Fisher grew up in Providence, Rhode Island and attented Brown University. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Brown in 1919 and received a Master of Arts a year later. He went on to attend Howard University Medical School and graduated in 1924. Fisher married Jane Ryder in 1925, and they had one son, Hugh, who was born in 1926. He died in 1934 at the age of 37.Principal Works
- City of Refuge (1925)
- High Yaller
- The Walls of Jericho (1928), about black life in Harlem
- The Conjure-Man Dies (1932)
In 1991, an anthology of Fisher's short fiction, City of Refuge: The Collected Stories of Rudolph Fisher, was published by the University of Missouri Press.
Quotations
"The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began to give way to hope."
See also
External links
- [Fisher's biography at the D.C. Library website]
- [Rudolph Fisher Newsletter] — includes helpful research resources on the Harlem Renaissance as well as Fisher himself.
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