Irving Fiske American Writer
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| First Name |
Irving
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| Last Name |
Fiske
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| Birthday |
30th November, 1907
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| Birthplace |
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
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| Died |
1990
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| Place of Death |
Ocala, Florida
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| Nationality |
American
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| Occupation Text |
playwright, writer, and public speaker
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| Occupation |
Writer
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Irving L. Fiske (born Irving Louis Fishman; March 5, 1908 – April 25, 1990) was an American playwright, writer, and public speaker.He worked for the Federal Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the 1930s, where he was a writer and rewrite man on The WPA Guide to New York City, in print today. He corresponded with George Bernard Shaw, wrote an article now considered a classic, "Bernard Shaw's Debt to William Blake," and translated Shakespeare's Hamlet into Modern English. He and his wife Barbara Fiske Calhoun co-founded the artist's retreat and "hippie commune" Quarry Hill Creative Center, on the Fiske family property, in Rochester, Vermont.
