Hortense Calisher

Hortense Calisher was born in New York in 1911, to a Jewish father from Richmond, a manufacturer of perfumes and soaps, twenty-two years older than her mother, a German Jew from Frankfurt. She graduated from Barnard in 1932 and worked for the city's social services during the Depression. She published her first short story in the New Yorker in 1948, married and a mother. She produced more than twenty books, served as president of American PEN and of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and died in Manhattan in 2009, aged ninety-seven.

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• Short storiesIn the Absence of AngelsHortense Calisher · 1951Literature