Vardis Fisher Pioneered Literary Mormon Writing.

Through tracing the forces that defined Fisher culturally and intellectually, Austin establishes Fisher's essential Mormon-ness. As I said earlier, Austin claims that Fisher was the first who escaped the anti-Mormon caricatures of the religion and the faith-promoting home literature, neither of which captured the essence and vitality of Mormon culture. [Extracted from the article]

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