Hortense Calisher

Hortense Calisher (born December 20, 1911 in New York City , † January 13, 2009 in Manhattan , New York City) was an American writer .

biography

After attending school, the daughter of a Jewish entrepreneur studied at Barnard College , graduating in 1932. After her father during the Great Depression and the ensuing Great Depression lost his fortune largely and had to take even seventy years time employment, she began working as a saleswoman in a department store . In 1935 she married the engineer Heaton Heffelfinger and devoted herself to raising her two children as a housewife and mother in the years to come .

She made her literary debut at the age of forty with the publication of Absence of Angels (1951). After the National Book Award- nominated novel False Entry (1961), she first published a collection of short stories under the title Tales for the Mirror (1962), which includes the books Textures of Life (1963), Extreme Magic (1964), Journey from Ellipsia (1966) and The Railway Police, and The Last Trolley Ride (1966) followed.

After the novels The New Yorkers (1969) and Queenie (1971), she published her memoir, again nominated for the National Book Award , in 1972 under the title Herself (1972) . After the books Standard Dreaming (1972) and Eagle Eye (1973) another collection of her short stories appeared in 1975 with Collected Stories , which were also nominated for the National Book Award. She then wrote On Keeping Women (1977) and the novel Mysteries of Motion (1983), which Saratoga Hot (1985), The Bobby-Soxer (1986) and Age (1987).

In 1988, Kissing Cousins: A Memory was another autobiography . After the novel In the Palace of the Movie King (1993), most recently appeared in In the Slammer with Carol Smith (1997), Sunday Jews (2003) and Tattoo for a Slave (2004).

Hortense Calisher was not only President of the US PEN from 1986 to 1987 , but also President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters from 1987 to 1990 , of which she had been a member since 1977. In 1997 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

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SURNAME	Calisher, Hortense
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American writer
DATE OF BIRTH	December 20, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH	New York City
DATE OF DEATH	January 13, 2009
Place of death	Manhattan , New York City