This week we feature biographer and cultural historian Paul Fisher. His most recent award-winning biography, The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in November 2022. Fisher currently serves as an American Studies Professor at Wellesley College; he has also taught at Yale, Wesleyan, Boston University, and Harvard. His group biography, House of Wits: An Intimate Portrait of the James Family (Henry Holt and Co., 2008) was designated a Spectator book of 2008. Fisher was interviewed by BIO member Jennifer Skoog.                         

Wellesley Magazine, Winter 2023, Paul Fisher, April 5, 2022