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According to Wikipedia, Vardis Alvero Fisher was an American writer from Idaho who wrote popular historical novels of the Old West. After studying at the University of Utah and the University of Chicago, Fisher taught English at the University of Utah and then at the Washington Square College of New York University until 1931. He worked with the Federal Writers' Project to write the Works Project Administration The Idaho Guide, which was published in 1937. In 1939, Fisher wrote Children of God, a historical novel concerning the early Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . The novel won the Harper Prize. In 1940, Fisher relocated to Hagerman, Idaho, and spent the next twenty years writing the 12-volume Testament of Man series of novels, depicting the history of humans from cavemen to civilization. Fisher's novel Mountain Man was adapted in the film Jeremiah Johnson .

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The dissatisfied worker (1932) (71)
EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF MOODS 1 (1934) (31)
Desert Saints: The Mormon Frontier in Utah. (1942) (31)
An introduction to abnormal psychology (1931) (14)
Hypnotic suggestion and the conditioned reflex. (1932) (9)
An inventory of affective potency. (1941) (7)
An Inventory of Affective Tolerance (1941) (7)
PSYCHIC SHOCK TREATMENT FOR EARLY SCHIZOPHRENIA (1944) (4)
A few notes on age and sex differences in mechanical learning. (4)
Thomas Wolfe As I Knew Him And Other Essays (1963) (4)
Children of God : an American epic (1939) (3)
The mothers : an American saga of courage (1943) (3)
An experimental study of the effects of tobacco smoking on certain psycho-physical functions (2)
THE TREATMENT OF AN EARLY CASE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA BY THE PSYCHIC SHOCK METHOD (1945) (2)
The Novelist and His Background (1953) (2)
Another Attempt at Measures of Extraversion-Introversion (1933) (2)
Pemmican : a novel of the Hudson's Bay Company (1956) (1)
City of illusion : a novel (1941) (1)
No villain need be (1936) (1)
In Tragic Life (1932) (1)
The golden rooms (1944) (1)
April : a fable of love (1937) (1)
Intimations of Eve (1946) (1)
God or Caesar: The Writing of Fiction for Beginners (1954) (1)
Passions spin the plot (1934) (1)
Children of God (1977) (0)
Darkness and the deep (1943) (0)
The meaning and practice of psychotherapy (1950) (0)
Emotional maladjustment and labor turnover. (1931) (0)
Intimations of Eve@@@Janey Jeems (1947) (0)
Love and death : the complete stories of Vardis Fisher (1959) (0)
A suggested mental hygiene program. (1931) (0)
The origin and nature of emotional maladjustments. (1931) (0)
A Trivial Excursion in Modesty (1942) (0)
Symptoms of emotional maladjustment in industry. (1931) (0)
We Are Betrayed (0)
Auto-Correctivism: The Psychology of Nervousness (1938) (0)
The inherent nature of the human individual. (1931) (0)
Emotional maldevelopment involving fear. (1931) (0)
Emotional maldevelopment involving the sexual disposition. (1931) (0)
Emotional maldevelopment involving self-assertion. (1931) (0)
Some typical cases of emotional maladjustment. (1931) (0)

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