Irving Fiske
| Irving Fiske | |
|---|---|
| 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 | playwright, writer, and public speaker |
| Known for | Quarry Hill Creative Center |
| Spouse(s) | 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) during the 1930s, 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.
Fiske was born in Brooklyn, New York, to an immigrant Jewish family from Georgia, Russia, and Romania. He graduated from Cornell University in 1928. He had two brothers, Milton and Robert, and a sister, Miriam. Milton was a Bohemian, like Irving, and a classical composer, like his hero, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with whom he shared a birthday.
Fiske wrote for H. L. Mencken’s American Mercury.
On January 8, 1946, Fiske married Barbara Fiske Calhoun. In 1946, he and his wife, both wildly unconventional bohemian intellectuals, used wedding money to buy the farm in Rochester that later became Quarry Hill Creative Center, in Rochester, Vermont.
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