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William Fisher

Bill Fisher is a native San Antonian.  He earned his B.A. in Spanish and history at Rice University.  While a student at Rice in the early 1990s, Bill spent a semester studying in Santiago, Chile, where he fell in love with the country and its culture, especially its poetry.    After graduating from Rice, he attended the University of Texas School of Law.  Fisher now practices law in the field of employee benefits and tax exempt organizations in San Antonio with Cox Smith Matthews.   In his spare time between work and family life, Bill is an avid book collector and student of literary and publishing history.   One of his main interests is the literature of Latin America, with a special focus on the work of Chile’s Nobel Prize winning poet Pablo Neruda.   He has amassed a large collection of Neruda’s correspondence, books, and manuscripts and takes great pleasure in sharing his knowledge and exhibiting objects from his collection.  In 2004, Fisher curated an exhibit at the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University celebrating the centenary of Neruda’s birth.