Irving Fiske | |
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| Born | Irving Louis Fishman March 5, 1908 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Died | April 25, 1990 (aged 82) Monroe Regional Medical Center Ocala, Florida |
| Other names | "The Forest Wizard" "The Socrates of Ocala Forest" |
| Alma mater | Cornell University, 1928 |
| Occupation(s) | playwright, writer, and public speaker |
| Known for | Quarry Hill Creative Center |
| Spouse | Barbara Fiske Calhoun (m. 1946 – div. 1976) |
| Children | Isabella Fiske (b. 1950) William Fiske (1954-2008) |
| Family | (brothers): Milton and Robert (sister) Miriam |
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.[1] He and his wife Barbara Fiske Calhoun co-founded the artist's retreat and intentional community Quarry Hill Creative Center, on the Fiske family property, in Rochester, Vermont.