VARDIS FISHER - AN AMERICAN ATHEIST AUTHOR
A book review by Richard Andrews

In the Depression years of the thirties, Vardis Fisher was hailed as one of the most promising authors of the American West. He was compared to his good friend, Thomas Wolfe, or to Faulkner or Hemingway. Before Fisher died in 1968, he was the author of 36 published books, had won the Harper Prize, his work was published in French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Danish, and he had written 50 short stories and essays for magazines, and had a regular column in the Idaho Statesman from 1943 to 1950.

Fisher had written historical novels about the Donner Party, the Comstock load, the Mormons, the Lewis and Clark expedition, mountain man Jerimiah Johnson (which inspired a movie), and a twelve volume set on the evolution of man and religion.

Antiquarian book dealers fetch $50 to $100 for his books. Libraries and Universities have special collections of his books. His current obscurity has its roots in both his atheism and the economics of book publishing and the mismanagement of his copyrights.
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Books by Vardis Fisher

Mountain Man  
Suicide or Murder? : The Strange Death of Governor Meriwether Lewis
Children of God
Gold Rushes and Mining Camps of the Early American West
Love and Death
Tale of Valor
City of Illusion
Dark Bridwell
In Tragic Life

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