SOURCE: Wagenknecht, Edward. “Stimulating Treatment of Bible Story.” Chicago Tribune (24 June 1951): 2.

In the following review of The Valley of Vision, Wagenknecht comments that Fisher offers an engaging fictional story based on solid historical knowledge in “a fresh and stimulating interpretation of biblical history.”

Vardis Fisher, the Idaho novelist, first challenged fame with the possibly autobiographical “Vridar Hunter” tetralogy—In Tragic Life and its successors—titled from Meredith's Modern Love. Perhaps his best known novel is the one about the Mormons, Children of God, which won a Harper prize. He is now engaged upon a series of twelve novels known collectively as “Testament of Man,” in which the book in hand, [The Valley of Vision] subtitled A Novel of King Solomon and His Time, is Number Six.

Like the Thomas Mann tetralogy, The Valley of Vision rests on solid historical knowledge. Mr. Fisher seems to have read all the...