Item Detail
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9906
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9
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3
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English
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The Mormon Heritage of Vardis Fisher
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BYU Studies
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Fall 1977
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18
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27-47
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"Tradition says that Vardis Fisher completely rejected his Mormon background, and that, in turn, he was rejected by the Mormon community. Cassie Hyde Hock, who did the first comprehensive study of fictional, works in which Mormons were principal characters, indicates that Fisher was "excommunicated for his frankness in portraying Mormon life as he knew it." With the exception of Joseph Flora, other biographers have dwelt on his early rebellion against a rigid Puritan upbringing and his frequent derisive comments on Joseph Smith and Mormon bishops. Even Flora states that Fisher left the Church at age eighteen and that Mormon authorities "officially repudiated" children of God." [Publisher's abstract]
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In a Rugged Land : Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange and the Three Mormon Towns Collaboration, 1953-1954
Leonard James Arrington (1917-1999) : A Bibliography
Mormon Bibliography 1978
Telling Latter-Day Saint Lives : The Craft and Continuing Challenge of Mormon Biography
The Brief History and Perpetually Exciting Future of Mormon Literary Studies
The Mormon Experience : A History of the Latter-day Saints
Vardis Fisher : A Mormon Novelist
Vardis Fisher's Mormon Scars : Mapping the Diaspora in the Testament of Man
Western History Association Prize Recipient, 1984 : Leonard J. Arrington