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Vardis Alvero Fisher (March 31, 1895 – July 9, 1968) was an American writer from Idaho who wrote popular historical novels of the Old West. After studying at the University of Utah and the University of Chicago , Fisher taught English at the University of Utah and then at the Washington Square College of New York University until 1931.
The Testament of Man (1943–1960), a twelve-volume series of novels by the American author Vardis Fisher, traces the physical, psychological and spiritual evolution of Western civilization from Australopithecus to the present. The series explores a pantheon of subjects: myth, ritual, language, family, sex and especially sin, guilt and religion.
Mountain Man is a 1965 novel written by Vardis Fisher. Set in the mid-1800s United States, it tells the story of Sam Minard, a hunter/trapper living and wandering throughout Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. The book is separated into three parts: Lotus, Kate and Sam.
Jeremiah Johnson is a 1972 American Western film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford as the title character and Will Geer as "Bear Claw" Chris Lapp. It is based partly on the life of the legendary mountain man John Jeremiah Johnson, recounted in Raymond Thorp and Robert Bunker's book Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson and Vardis Fisher's 1965 novel Mountain Man.
Growing up Episcopalian, Brown doubted religion from a young age, which led to themes of conspiracy and and religious skepticism that are found in many of Brown's books, like his most famous work ...
Vardis Fisher was born in Idaho and his parents were Mormon; he joined the LDS Church briefly as an adult but did not identify as Mormon. Mormon characters are prominent in his early fiction. He won the Harper Prize in 1939 for Children of God (1939). Fisher's later fiction does not feature Mormon characters.
Vardis Fisher, The Island of the Innocent (1952) William Golding, The Double Tongue (1995) Joan Grant, Return to Elysium (1947) H.D., Hedylus (1928) Jack Lindsay, Come Home at Last (1934) Naomi Mitchison, The Corn King and the Spring Queen (1930) Eden Phillpotts, The Treasures of Typhon (1924) Carolyn Snedeker, The Forgotten Daughter (1933) L ...
It was a young Afghan boy, Martz found out later, who detonated 40 pounds of explosives beneath Martz’s squad. He was one of the younger kids who hung around the Marines. Martz had given him books and candy and, even more precious, his fond attention. The boy would tip them off to IEDs and occasionally brought them fresh-baked bread.