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About 162 pages (48,676 words) in 24 products |
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Hortense Calisher | | Variant Name: |
Jack Fenno, Mrs. Curtis Harnack | | Birth Date: |
December 20, 1911 | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Female |
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 Biography of Hortense Calisher
5,875 words, approx. 20 pages
 In a career of nearly six decades, novelist and short-story writer Hortense Calisher has produced an impressive body of work--six books of stories and novellas, fourteen novels, and two memoirs--and has received many awards and honors, including a... summary from source:
Biography of Hortense Calisher
5,227 words, approx. 17 pages
Hortense Calisher was born in New York City on 20 December 1911, the child of Joseph Henry Calisher and Hedwig Lichstern Calisher; they were a comfortable, middle-class Jewish family. Her father was a story-telling Southerner originally from Richmond,... 
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 Hortense Calisher Quotes
18 words, approx. 1 pages
 This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Hortense Calisher Information
439 words, approx. 2 pages
Hortense Calisher (born December 20, 1911) is an American writer of fiction. A graduate of Barnard College (1932), she was the daughter of a young German immigrant and an older father from a Southern family she described as "volcanic to meditative to...
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 The New York Observer Bobby Short King of Pop
3/27/2005: 3,280 words, approx. 11 pagesSome people are good at what they do. Other people are better. Bobby Short was the best. Preserving the art of the Great American Songbook was his life's work, and nobody did more for the cause. When cabaret queen Mabel Mercer, his friend and sometime...
Literary Criticism
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 Interview by Hortense Calisher with Allan Gurganus, Pamela McCordick, and Mona Simpson
6,991 words, approx. 23 pages
In the following interview, Calisher discusses her early life, diverse family influences, literary beginnings, and the themes, preoccupations, and creative processes behind her writing.
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Critical Essay by Kathleen Snodgrass
6,636 words, approx. 22 pages
In the following essay, Snodgrass examines the related themes in Textures of Life, Queenie, and Eagle Eye, drawing attention to the movement from ideal to real and symbolic to literal in each.
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Critical Essay by Kathleen Snodgrass
4,479 words, approx. 15 pages
In the following essay, Snodgrass examines Calisher's authorial perspective and trademark prose style, drawing attention to the opposing aspects of “old world” realism and modern sensibility in her work.
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