About Philip Fisher
Born 1941. Philip Fisher is a writer.
Philip Fisher (born 1941) is the Felice Crowl Reid Professor of English and American Literature at Harvard University and an author.
He was a co-winner of the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in 2000 for his book, Still the New World: American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction.
He graduated from Harvard University with a M.A. in 1966 and Ph.D. in 1971. He earned an A.B. in 1963 from the University of Pittsburgh.
Books The Vehement Passions (2002) Still the New World: American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction (1999) Wonder, the Rainbow and the Aesthetics of Rare Experiences (1998) Making and Effacing Art (1991) Hard Facts (1986) Making Up Society (1981)
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author and academic in English literature at Harvard University
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Philip Fisher was born in 1941.
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