Movie rights were sold for The Home-Maker (1924). Fisher's translation of Giovanni Papini's Life of Christ (1923) sold 350,000 copies. The Brimming Cup (1921) was a best-seller. Writing in brief bursts, she completed two volumes of stories about wartime France.įisher returned from the war profoundly depressed, but rebounded through intense work and produced her best, most popular writing in the 1920's. Her husband volunteered for ambulance service in April 1916, and in August the family moved to Paris, where she organized the printing of books in braille for blinded soldiers, ran the commissary for her husband's training camp, and during the last year of the war ran a home for refugee children at Guéthary. In 1911-1912 Fisher worked for five months with Maria Montessori in Rome, an experience that resulted in four books on child development (1912 - 1916) that were drawn also from her experience with her two children.Įducation remained her primary interest, expressed in her writing and in her service on the Vermont State Board of Education (1921 - 1923) and on the American Youth Commission (1935 - 1941). After teaching for a year at the Horace Mann School in New York City, she decided to concentrate on writing, and found it brought her a comfortable living.
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