Irving Fiske, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetIrving Fiske
American writer
Date of Birth: 05-Mar-1908
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Date of Death: 25-Apr-1990
Profession: playwright
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Irving Fiske
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- 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.
- 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.
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