Alfred Fisher (1903-1970) was born in New York, graduated from Princeton University in 1927 and received a doctorate from the University at Dijon, France. In 1936 he began teaching at Smith College, and remained there until his retirement in 1967. Although his only published works were lyric poems, Dr. Fisher was known in academic circles for his study of James Joyce. For the last 10 years of his life he worked on an interleaved, and notated edition of Joyce's “Finnegans Wake.”
Discipline:
Literature
Alfred Fisher
Discipline:
Literature
MacDowell Fellowships: 1954
Studios
Wood
Alfred Fisher worked in the Wood studio.
Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…