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A Short Biography of Hortense Calisher

Author Name:

Hortense Calisher

Born As:

Hortense Calisher

Other Names:

Born:

20 Dec 1911

Died:

13 Jan 2009




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Novelist, essayist and short story writer                          
Selected Works:

Fiction:

In the Absence of Angels - 1951
False Entry - 1961
Tale for the Mirror - 1962
Textures of Life, - 1963
Extreme Magic - 1964
Journey from Ellipsia - 1966
The Railway Police, and The Last Trolley Ride - 1966
The New Yorkers - 1970
Standard Dreaming - 1972
Eagle Eye - 1973
Queenie - 1973
The Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher - 1975
On Keeping Women - 1977
Mysteries of Motion - 1983
Saratoga Hot - 1985
The Bobby-Soxer - 1986
Age - 1987
Kissing Cousins: A Memory - 1988
The Small Bang - under the pseudonym of Jack Fenno - 1992
In the Palace of the Movie King - 1993
In the Slammer with Carol Smith - 1997
The Novellas of Hortense Calisher - 1997
Sunday Jews - 2003

Non-fiction:

Herself - autobiography, 1972
Tattoo for a Slave - memoir, 2004.                          
                          
President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
President of PEN, the Worldwide Association of Writers

National Book Award finalist three times 
O. Henry Award for "The Night Club in the Woods" 
Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for "The Bobby Soxer "- 1986

Guggenheim Fellowships in 1952 and 1955.