Rudolph Fisher Biography

Rudolph John Chauncey Fisher (May 9, 1897 – December 26, 1934) was an African-American physician, radiologist, novelist, short story writer, dramatist, musician, and orator. His father was John Wesley Fisher, a clergyman, his mother was Glendora Williamson Fisher, and he had two siblings. Fisher married Jane Ryder, a school teacher from Washington, D.C. in 1925, and they had one son, Hugh, who was born in 1926 and was also nick named "The New Negro" as a tribute to the Harlem renaissance.