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Keeping Fires Night And Day: Selected Letters Of Dorothy Canfield Fisher (Volume 1),New
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Eleanor Roosevelt Called Her One Of The Most Influential Women In America. Among The Earliest And Most Assertive Members Of The Bookofthemonth Club Selection Committee, Dorothy Canfield Fisher Helped Define Literary Taste In America For More Than Three Decades. She Helped Shape The Careers Of Such Great Writers As Pearl Buck, Isak Dinesen, And Richard Wright. A Bestselling Author Herself, Fisher Was Also A Deeply Committed Social Activist. In Keeping Fires Night And Day, Mark J. Madigan Collects Much Of Fisher'S Copious Correspondence. With Letters To Willa Cather, W.E.B. Du Bois, Albert Einstein, Robert Frost, Margaret Mead, James Thurber, And E.B. White, He Documents Fisher'S Personal And Professional Life And Career In A Way That No Biography Could. Set Against The American Historical And Cultural Landscape From 1900 To 1958, These Letters Offer A Firsthand Account Of One Of The Twentieth Century'S Most Remarkable Women.While Fisher'S Novels Treated Such Conventional Subjects As Marriage And Domestic Life, Her Own Life Was Anything But Conventional. When Her Bestselling Novels Made Her The Chief Breadwinner In Her Marriage, Her Husband, John Fisher, Quietly Assumed The Role Of Secretary And Editor Of Her Work. Fluent In Five Languages, Dorothy Canfield Fisher Founded A Braille Press In France And Introduced The Educational Methods Of Dr. Maria Montessori To The United States. She Became A Pioneering Advocate Of Adult Education And Served As The First Woman On The Vermont Board Of Education.In Letters To Friends, Fans, And Colleagues, Fisher Discussed Her Homelife, Her Work, And The World Around Her. Her Passions And Concernsrevealed In Her Correspondence With Wit And Poignancyinclude The 'New Woman' And The Suffrage Movement, Racial Discrimination And The Emergence Of The Naacp, The Development Of The National Education System, Two World Wars, The Depression, And The Influence Of Book Clubs In The Literary Marketplace.Dorothy Canfield Fisher 'Helped Twentiethcentury American Literature To Come Of Age,' Writes Clifton Fadimon In His Foreward. Yet Lasting Recognition Has Eluded Her. In Keeping Fires Night And Day The Distinctive Voice Of This Gifted, Intelligent And Spirited Woman Is Heard Once Again.
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