Anne B. Fisher

Who is Anne B. Fisher?

Anne Benson Fisher was an American writer of fiction and non-fiction whose primary emphasis was California. Her two most significant works were her novel Cathedral in the Sun and her contribution to the Rivers of America Series, The Salinas: Upside Down River.

In 1922 Fisher married Walter Kenrick Fisher. They resided in Carmel Valley, California, all of her life. Her novel Cathedral in the Sun was based on the lives of the early settlers of the Carmel Valley, James Meadows and Loretta Onesimo de Peralta, who were married in 1842.

Cathedral in the Sun led to an invitation by Stephen Vincent Benét to write about the Salinas River for the Rivers of America Series