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 schooling studied the daughter of a Jewish entrepreneur from Barnard College and graduated in 1932 from. After her father in the wake of the global economic crisis and the resulting Great Depression largely lost his fortune and even seventy years had to take up work again, she began to work as a saleswoman in a department store. In 1935 she married the engineer Heaton Heffelfinger and devoted himself in the coming years of education of the two children as a housewife and mother.

Her literary debut was only forty years with the publication of Absence of Angels ( 1951). After the nominees for the National Book Award novel False Entry ( 1961) she first published a collection of short stories titled Tales for the Mirror ( 1962), 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 in 1972 under the title Herself ( 1972) her again nominated for the National Book Award memoirs. According to the books default Dreaming ( 1972) and Eagle Eye ( 1973) was published in 1975 with Collected Stories another collection of her short stories, which were also nominated for the National Book Award. Then she 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 with Kissing Cousins ​​: A Memory another autobiography. Based on the novel In the Palace of the King Movie (1993 ) most recently appeared in the Slammer with Carol Smith ( 1997), Sunday Jews (2003) and Tattoo for a Slave ( 2004).

Hortense Calisher was not only 1986-1987 president of PEN the U.S., but from 1987 to 1990 and President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

External links and sources

  • Hortense Calisher in the Notable Names Database (English)
  • Homepage of Hortense Calisher
  • Biography.jrank.org
  • Biography ( Jewish Women 's Archive )
  • Biography ( enotes.com )
  • THE GUARDIAN: Hortense Calisher: A prolific New York author, she more than made ​​up for a late start (25 March 2009)
  • Author
  • Americans
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Literature ( 21st century)
  • Literature ( English )
  • Literature (United States)
  • Born in 1911
  • Died in 2009
  • Woman
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