Philip Fisher (author)

Philip Fisher (born 1941) is the Felice Crowl Reid Professor of English and American Literature at Harvard University and an author.[1][2]

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.[3]

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.[4]

Books
  • The Vehement Passions (2002)
  • Still the New World: American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction (1999)[5]
  • Wonder, the Rainbow and the Aesthetics of Rare Experiences (1998)[6]
  • Making and Effacing Art (1991)
  • Hard Facts (1986)
  • Making Up Society (1981)

References
  1. "Department of English Faculty". Harvard University. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
  2. Fisher, Philip (1999). Still the New World: American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction. Harvard University Press, Second Edition. pp. Back Cover. ISBN 0674004094.
  3. "Harvard critics Elaine Scarry and Philip Fisher share 2000 Capote Award at UI". University News Service - The University of Iowa. Retrieved 2016-12-08.
  4. "Department of English Faculty". Harvard University. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
  5. Fisher, Philip (1999). Still the new world : American literature in a culture of creative destruction (1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674838599.
  6. Fisher, Philip (1998). Wonder, the rainbow, and the aesthetics of rare experiences. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674955625.


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