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Jan 27, 2021 · In May 1926, Carl Van Vechten welcomed Fisher with his wife and sister after dinner to meet publishers Blanche and Alfred Knopf. When Fisher’s debut novel, The Walls of Jericho , fell into the hands of readers in 1928, Knopf trumpeted its latest voice from Harlem as a work in line with Nella Larsen, James Weldon Johnson and Langston Hughes.
- At A Glance…
- Became Associated with The Harlem Renaissance
- Became Medical Practitioner
- Exposed Class Antagonism in Black Community
- Final Works
- Selected Writings
- Sources
Born Rudolph John Chauncey Fisher, May 9, 1897, in Washington D.C; son of John Wesley Fisher (Reverend) and Clendora Fisher; married Jane Ryder, 1926; children: Hugh. Education: Brown UniversityB.A.; Brown M.A., 1919; Howard Medical School degree, 1924. Career: Writer and medical practitioner. Around 1924 became a fellow at the National Research Co...
During the mid 1920s Fisher became associated with Harlem’s black Bohemian circle led by writers Wallace Thurman and Zora Neale Hurston. Fisher quickly gained a reputation as an individual of gifted wit and literary talent. “He was immensely liked by both men and women,” explained David Levering Lewis in When Harlem Was in Vogue, “not only because ...
In 1927 Fisher opened a private medical practice in Harlem 1927 and around this time became the administrator of a private X-ray laboratory, and a chair on the Department of Roentgenology at Manhattan’s International Hospital. Once established in Harlem, Fisher discovered that many of his favorite local African American night spots had been transfo...
Through the intercession of NAACP executive secretary Walter White and novelist Carl Van Vechten, Fisher’s novel Walls of Jericho was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1928. Though a worthy effort by a first-time author, the book was condemned by W.E.B. Du Bois for portraying the upper class blacks as snobbish and lacking in values. In The Crisis Du ...
In 1932 Fisher’s book Conjure Man Dies saw publication by Convici- Friede, making him the second African American to publish a detective novel in the United States. Fisher utilized his medical background to write a mystery involving a cast of Harlem characters. As David Levering Lewis noted in When Harlem was in Vogue, “Fisher’s technique owed some...
Books
The Walls of Jericho, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, reprinted by Ann ArborPaperbacks, 1994. The Conjure Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem, Convici-Freide, 1932.
Short Stories
“City of Refuge,”1925. “HighYaller,”1926. “Blades of Steel,”1927. “Ringtail.” “The South Still Lingers On.” “Fire By Night.” “The Promiseland.” “Common Meter,”1930. “Miss Cynthie,”1933.
Other
“The Caucasian Storms Harlem,”1927.
Books
Bell, Bernard W., The African American Novel and its Tradition, University of Massachusetts Press, 1987,pp. 138-142. Brown, Loyd L., The Young Paul Robeson: On My Own Journey Now, WestviewPress, 1977, pp. 103-104. Cavalcade: Negro Writing From 1760 to the Present, edited by Arthur P. Davis and Saunders Redding, Houghton Mifflin, 1971, pp. 337-353. Dark Symphony: Negro Literature in America, edited by James A. Emanuel andTheodore L. Gross, pp. 110-123. Fullinwider, S.P., The Mind and Mood of B...
Periodicals
The Crisis, November 1928. —John Cohassey
May 9, 2024 · Moving to New York City in 1925, Fisher met other Black writers including Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, James Weldon Johnson, Walter White, and Jessie Redmon Fauset, as well as the white literary celebrity Carl Van Vechten, a major booster of Black arts and letters.
ing Countee Cullen, Carl Van Vechten, Zora Neale Hurston, Sterling Brown, Nella Larsen, and Rudolph Fisher, are also covered in this chapter. As Tracy points out, the case is not difficult to make since the "New Negro" writers created the most sustained use of the materials of hot music, which was "startlingly rooted and
Sep 9, 2016 · Carl Van Vechten, a familiar figure among New York City’s literary and artistic circles in the early 20th century, tried his hand as a novelist, critic and journalist, to varying results,...
Carl Van Vechten (June 17, 1880 – December 21, 1964) was an American writer and artistic photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein. [1] He gained fame as a writer, and notoriety as well, for his 1926 novel Nigger Heaven.
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Rudolph Fisher. Rudolph John Chauncey Fisher (May 9, 1897 – December 26, 1934) was an American physician, radiologist, novelist, short story writer, dramatist, musician, and orator. His father was John Wesley Fisher, a clergyman, his mother was Glendora Williamson Fisher, and he had two siblings. Fisher married Jane Ryder, a school teacher ...
