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 h...
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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...
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Hortense Calisher
