Rudolph Fisher (1897-1934) foi um dos principais nomes do movimento cultural chamado Renascimento do Harlem. Bacharel e mestre em Artes pela Universidade Brown, posteriormente se graduou em Medicina pela Universidade Howard. Atuou com sucesso na área de radiologia, tendo sido pesquisador no Hospital Internacional de Manhattan e superintendente no Hospital Internacional do Harlem. Sua experiência com a medicina rendeu material para sua carreira como escritor de contos e romances de mistério. Foi também ensaísta, músico e orador. Morreu aos 37 anos, dois anos após publicar seu segundo romance, A morte do adivinho.
8 Ebooks by Rudolph Fisher
Rudolph Fisher: Conjure-Man Dies: A Harlem Mystery
A unique crime classic: the very first detective novel written by an African-American, set in 1930s New York with only Black characters.When the body of N’Gana Frimbo, the African conjure-man, is …
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€9.11
Rudolph Fisher: Walls of Jericho
The first novel by one of the legends of the Harlem Renaissance, a classic in the annals of Black fiction.When Black lawyer Fred Merrit purchases a house in the most exclusive white neighbourhood …
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€6.29
Fisher Rudolph Fisher: Conjure-Man Dies
An unmissable entry in the esteemed Library of Congress Crime Classics, an exciting new classic mystery series created in exclusive partnership with the Library of Congress to highlight the best of …
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€15.08
Rudolph Fisher: The Walls of Jericho
Published to critical acclaim in 1928, The Walls of Jericho is the debut novel of one of the most important voices of the Harlem Renaissance, Rudolph Fisher.
Taking on a friend’s challenge to “writ …
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€10.99
Rudolph Fisher: A morte do adivinho
O Clube do Crime chegou! Damos as boas-vindas à nova coleção de suspenses clássicos em edições de luxo com A morte do adivinho, a primeira história de mistério ambientada no Harlem de 1930. …
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€7.49
F Scott Fitzgerald & H P Lovecraft: Top 10 Short Stories – The 1920’s – The Americans
Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, …
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€4.93
Rudolph Fisher: Walls of Jericho
A Black lawyer’s move to a white neighborhood is anything but straightforward in this jazz-age satire by “the wittiest of the Harlem Renaissance writers” (Langston Hughes). When …
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€2.48
Rudolph Fisher: The Walls of Jericho
Rudolph Fisher’s outstanding debut novel
The Walls of Jericho, published in 1928, explores race and class issues during the 1920s Harlem Renaissance through the lens of Black lawyer Fred Merrit, who …
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€4.49
