Anne Benson Fisher (February 1, 1898 – March 5, 1967) was an American writer of fiction and non-fiction whose primary emphasis was California. Her two most significant works were her novel Cathedral in the Sun (1940) and her contribution to the Rivers of America Series, The Salinas: Upside Down River (1945).Fitzgerald, Carol. The Rivers of America: A Descriptive Bibliography. New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2001.
In 1922 Fisher married Walter Kenrick Fisher. They resided in Pacific Grove, California, and also had a house in Carmel Valley. Fisher moved to Medford, Oregon after her husband's death. Her novel Cathedral in the Sun was based on the lives of the early settlers of the Carmel Valley, James Meadows and Loretta Onesimo de Peralta, who were married in 1842.Fink, Augusta, Monterey County The Dramatic Story of Its Past Monterey Bay, Big Sur, Carmel, Salinas Valley, Western Tanager Press/Valley Publishers, San Francisco, California, 1972.
Cathedral in the Sun led to an invitation by Stephen Vincent Benét to write about the Salinas River for the Rivers of America Series
Non-fiction Wide Road ahead: the story of a woman bacteriologist E. P. Dutton, [New York], 1939 Bears, Pirates and Silver Lace - Stories of Old California, Binfords & Mort, Portland, Oregon, 1944, 134 pp. Illustrated by Phil Nesbitt The Salinas: Upside Down River, Farrar and Rinehart, New York City, 1945 No More a Stranger: A Tale of Robert Louis Stevenson, Stanford University Press, Stanford University, California, 1946, 265 pp. Stories California Indians Told, Parnassus Press, Berkeley, California, 1957, 110 pp, Illustrated By Ruth Robbins
Fiction Cathedral in the Sun, Carlyle House, New York, 1940, 408pp. It's a Wise Child: A Disorderly Comedy of Fatherhood, Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, 1949, 281 pp. Oh Glittering Promise! A Novel of the California Gold Rush, Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, 1949, 294 pp
References
External links Papers of Anne B Fisher Memorial to Walter Kenrick Fisher Fisher Papers at the Library of Congress Carmel Valley Past