Philip Fisher (author)
Philip Fisher 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
- Still the New World: American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction
- Wonder, the Rainbow and the Aesthetics of Rare Experiences
- Making and Effacing Art
- Hard Facts
- ''Making Up Society''