Brown University Rudolph John Chauncey Fisher (May 9, 1897 – December 26, 1934) was an American physician, radiologist, novelist, short story writer, dramatist, musician, and orator.

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 nicknamed "The New Negro" as a tribute to the Harlem renaissance.

Fisher had a successful career as an innovative doctor and author, who discussed the dynamics and relationships of Black and White people living in Harlem.

On April 14, 1923, in Manhattan, Fisher married Jane Ryder, a public school teacher, a year after meeting her.

Then, he came to New York City in 1925 to take up a fellowship of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University's college, during which time he published two scientific articles of his research on treating Bacteriophage viruses with ultraviolet light.

Fisher then joined a prestigious board called the Fellow at the National Research Council of the College of Physicians and Surgeons.

[8] Fisher soon after became superintendent of the International Hospital in Harlem in 1927, and set up his private practice as a radiologist, with an X-ray laboratory of his own, in New York.

[11] He was inspired by a friend's challenge to write this novel treating both the upper and lower classes of black Harlem equally.

This novel presents a vision that African American men and women can both get ahead in life if they come together and form a bond against centuries of oppression.

Other short stories written by Rudolph Fisher are "High Yaller" in 1926, "Blades of Steel" in 1927, "Ringtail", "South Lingers On", "Fire by Night", "The Promise Land", "The Caucasian Storms Harlem" in 1927 and "Common Meter" in 1930.

[16] Fisher supported the Pan-African Congress, whose participants promoted self-determination for colonized Africans as a necessary prerequisite for complete social, economic and political emancipation.

Rudolph Fisher's story "The City of Refuge" is centered on a Southern black man named King Solomon Gillis and his migration to Harlem, New York from North Carolina to escape lynching.

[21] In the short story, the main character Evelyn Brown faces inner turmoil all her life as she is a black woman who looks white and because of her complexion she is accused of favoring fair skinned people.

This short story published in The Atlantic Monthly, has the central theme of intraracial conflict among black inhabitants in Harlem during the 1920s and 1930s.

He used the characters Cyril Best, a black man from the Caribbean, and Punch Anderson, from the South, in order to show the relationship between these two groups.

Fisher returned to Harlem and was astounded by the drastic change in the cabaret night scene, what was once a Black dominated space due to segregation was now a White attraction.

The "dickties" main goal is to assimilate to white culture and life in order to be accepted and prosper in New York.

These features also contribute to the tension between the upper and lower class in The Walls of Jericho, as it is easy for "dickties" to blend into the White community.

He is a "dicktie" and a successful Black lawyer who is making a bold choice by moving into a White neighborhood in Harlem.

Perry Dart, a detective of the Harlem police department, and physician John Archer start to investigate.

They discover Frimbo had been hit on the head with a club from his own collection of African curios and then suffocated with a handkerchief stuffed down his throat.

Dart and Archer discover Frimbo met with six other people before his death: his landlord Mrs. Crouch, Aramintha Snead, Jenkins, numbers runner Spider Webb, drug addict Doty Hicks, and railroad worker Easley Jones.

Brown discovers that Frimbo may have been targeted due to his involvement in a war between two rival numbers runners, one of whom employs Spider Webb.

At another gathering of the suspects, Frimbo reveals the truth: Fearing reprisals from Webb's employer, he and his assistant switched places.

Unless noted, Rudolph Fisher's bibliography is drawn from African American Authors, 1745–1945: Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, edited by Emmanuel Sampath Nelson.