Philip Fisher (author)

Philip Fisher (born 1941) is the Felice Crowl Reid Professor of English and American Literature at Harvard University and an author.{{cite news|title=Department of English Faculty|url=http://english.fas.harvard.edu/faculty/fisher/|newspaper=Harvard University Department of English|accessdate=13 September 2015}}{{Cite book|title=Still the New World: American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction|last=Fisher|first=Philip|publisher=Harvard University Press, Second Edition|year=1999|isbn=0674004094|location=|pages=Back Cover|quote=}}

He was a co-winner of the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in 2000 for his book, Still the New World: American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction.{{Cite web|url=http://www.news-releases.uiowa.edu/2000/april/0405capote.html|title=Harvard critics Elaine Scarry and Philip Fisher share 2000 Capote Award at UI |website=University News Service - The University of Iowa|access-date=2016-12-08}}

He graduated from Harvard University with a M.A. in 1966 and Ph.D. in 1971. He earned an A.B. in 1963 from the University of Pittsburgh.{{cite news|title=Department of English Faculty|url=http://english.fas.harvard.edu/faculty/fisher/|newspaper=Harvard University Department of English|accessdate=13 September 2015}}