Vardis Fisher

Michael Austin is the executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Evansville. He was previously a professor of English. His many books include Rereading Job: Understanding the Ancient World's Greatest Poem and We Must Not Be Enemies: Restoring America's Civic Tradition.

• CoverTitle PageCopyrightContentsForeword to the Introduction to Mormon Thought SeriesAcknowledgmentsChapter One. "Vardis Fisher Was Not a Mormon"Chapter Two. Vardis Fisher and the Beginnings of Mormon RegionalismChapter Three. Children of God and the Golden Age of Mormon LiteratureChapter Four. The Not Quite, Not Mormon Worldview of the Testament of ManA Bibliographic EssayNotesIndexBack cover

"Michael Austin has produced an admirable introduction to the life and work of Vardis Fisher, arguably the most prominent (and prolific!) novelist to emerge from the Intermountain region in the twentieth century." --Journal of Mormon History"A remarkably well-written, engaging, and informative read." --Mormon Studies Review"Vardis Fisher was a key founder of both American Western and Mormon literatures, a master storyteller with a remarkable life, 'an unbeliever who was Mormon to his core'. Michael Austin, Mormon literature's leading scholar, reintroduces Fisher and lovingly reinterprets these remarkable novels for a new generation."--Andrew Hall, Association for Mormon Letters