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Hortense Calisher |
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20th December 1911 |
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New York City, New York, USA |
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Hortense Calisher (born New York City December 20, 1911) is an American writer of fiction.
A graduate of Barnard College (1932), from a transplanted Southern family she described as "volcanic to meditative to fruitfully dull, and bound to produce someone interested in character, society, and time" (Tattoo for a Slave), she has involved her closely-investigated penetrating characters in complicated plotlines that unfold with shocks and surprises in allusive, nuanced language with a distinctively elegaic voice, sometimes compared with Eudora Welty: In the Absence of Angels (1951);False Entry (1961); Textures of Life (1963), The New Yorkers (1969), Queenie (1971), and Standard Dreaming (1972) Sunday Jews
Her collected novellas were published in 1997. Her autobiography, Herself was published in 1972.
Past president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and of PEN,the worldwide association of writers, she has been a National Book Award finalist three times and has won an O. Henry Award (for "The Night Club in the Woods"), as well as being awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1952 and 1955 . She lives in New York City.
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