Principal Works
- City of Refuge (1925)
- High Yaller (1925)
- The Walls of Jericho (1928), about black life in Harlem
- The Conjure-Man Dies (1932)
City of Refuge and another short story, Vestiges, were included in Alain Locke's anthology, The New Negro.
In 1991, an anthology of Fisher's short fiction, City of Refuge: The Collected Stories of Rudolph Fisher, was published by the University of Missouri Press.
Read more about this topic: Rudolph Fisher
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