Fisher, Rudolph

Fisher, Rudolph (John Chauncey)

(born May 9, 1897, Washington, D.C., U.S.—died Dec. 26, 1934, New York, N.Y.) U.S. short-story writer and novelist. He graduated from medical school in 1924 and was later a physician in private practice. He began publishing fiction in 1925. The most gifted short-story writer of the Harlem Renaissance, he often took as his subject the adjustment of Southern black migrants to New York City. He also published two novels, The Walls of Jericho (1928) and The Conjure-Man Dies (1932).