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

Harvard University private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with about 6,700 undergraduate students and about 15,250 postgraduate students. Established in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, clergyman John Harvard, Harvard is the United States' oldest institution of higher learning. Its history, influence, and wealth have made it one of the world's most prestigious universities.

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]

The Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism is awarded for literary criticism by the University of Iowa on behalf of the Truman Capote Literary Trust. The value of the award is $30,000 (USD), and is said to be the largest annual cash prize for literary criticism in the English language. The formal name of the prize is the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin, commemorating both Capote and his friend Newton Arvin, who was a distinguished critic and Smith College professor until he lost his job in 1960 after his homosexuality was publicly exposed.

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]

University of Pittsburgh American state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The University of Pittsburgh is a state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was founded as the Pittsburgh Academy in 1787 on the edge of the American frontier. It developed and was renamed as Western University of Pennsylvania by a change to its charter in 1819. After surviving two devastating fires and various relocations within the area, the school moved to its current location in the Oakland neighborhood of the city; it was renamed as the University of Pittsburgh in 1908. Pitt was a private institution until 1966 when it became part of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education.

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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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