• Hortense Calisher (December 20, 1911 – January 13, 2009) was an American writer of fiction and the second female president of the American Academy of...
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  • Calisher is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Charles Calisher, American virologist Hortense Calisher (1911–2009), American writer This...
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  • Jamaican reggae singer Hortense Calisher (1911–2009), American fiction writer, author of In the Absence of Angels Hortense Gabel (1912–1990), New York...
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  • writer Hortense Calisher billed the book as "a classic of self-revelation" and Mishima as "a mind of the utmost subtlety, broadly educated". Calisher wrote...
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  • Specializing in hard cover publications, Arbor House published works by Hortense Calisher, Ken Follett, Cynthia Freeman, Elmore Leonard and Irwin Shaw before...
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    William S. Burroughs Nicholas Murray Butler George Washington Cable Hortense Calisher Joseph Campbell George Whitefield Chadwick William Merritt Chase Chou...
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  • Bashevis Singer The Spinoza of Market Street and Other Stories Finalist Hortense Calisher False Entry Finalist George P. Elliott Among the Dangs Finalist Joseph...
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    Alcott, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Bernie Brillstein, Thornton Burgess, Hortense Calisher, Bruce Catton, A. J. Cronin, Peter De Vries, J. Frank Dobie, C. S...
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  • Shunsuke is obsessed with death and feels it is more powerful than life. Hortense Calisher said the book had a poor reception in the west, but also argued that...
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    humor as well as the tragedy of its finale." In The New York Times, Hortense Calisher stated that Spring Snow is praiseworthy for "its marvelous incidentals...
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  • Daimonji. He throws away the arsenic and knife and decides to live. Hortense Calisher of The New York Times referred to The Temple of the Golden Pavilion...
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  • journalist, author and editor of Yiddish newspaper Jewish Daily Forward Hortense Calisher, novelist and president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters...
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  • Ted Solotaroff 1979: Joyce Carol Oates 1980: Stanley Elkin 1981: Hortense Calisher 1982: John Gardner 1983: Anne Tyler 1984: John Updike 1985: Gail Godwin...
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  • footballer, airstrike. Pedro Aguilar, 81, American dancer, heart failure. Hortense Calisher, 97, American author. Tommy Casey, 78, British footballer. Cousin...
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  • Erogenous Zone: Writings on Love, Hate, and Sex Finalist Hortense Calisher Herself Hortense Calisher, American novelist Finalist Kenneth S. Davis FDR: The...
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    maintained an office in 2DD until his death Shirley Booth, actress Hortense Calisher, writer Jessica Chastain, actress, purchased unit 4B in 2015 Dane...
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    University Michael A. Burstein (class of 1987) – science fiction writer Hortense Calisher (class of 1928) – novelist, second female President of the American...
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  • Ludwig Bemelmans Sally Benson Isabel Bolton Kay Boyle Bessie Breuer Hortense Calisher John Cheever ("The Enormous Radio") Robert M. Coates John Collier...
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  • Vakkom Majeed, Indian journalist and politician (d. 2000) 1911 – Hortense Calisher, American author (d. 2009) 1914 – Harry F. Byrd Jr., American lieutenant...
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  • Caldwell (1900–1985), Dynasty of Death Wayne Caldwell (born 1948) Hortense Calisher (1911–2009), False Entry Sophia Alice Callahan (1868–1894), Wynema...
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  • literary critic, author, and academic Sasha Cagen (1996), writer Hortense Calisher (1932), writer Diana Chang (1949), pioneering Asian-American novelist...
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    December 18 – Jules Dassin, American director (d. 2008) December 20 – Hortense Calisher, American author (d. 2009) December 21 – Josh Gibson, African-American...
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    Prime Minister Ward's party losing its majority in Parliament. Born: Hortense Calisher, American writer; in New York City (d. 2009) The Illinois Supreme...
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  • Disch Confluence by Brian W. Aldiss from "Journal From Ellipsia" by Hortense Calisher An Ornament to His Profession by Charles L. Harness Narrow Valley...
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  • Gone Away (1973) and The Attic (1993). Harnack was married to writer Hortense Calisher. He died at his home in Manhattan on July 5, 2013. Yardley, William...
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  • William Sansom "The Enormous Radio", by John Cheever "Heartburn", by Hortense Calisher "The Supremacy of Uruguay", by E. B. White "The Pedestrian", by Ray...
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  • Knopf 1985 Ursula K. Le Guin Always Coming Home Harper & Row 1986 Hortense Calisher The Bobby Soxer Doubleday 1987 Gail Godwin A Southern Family William...
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  • Autobiography - John Adams, by David McCullough Lifetime Achievement - Hortense Calisher Fiction - Empire Falls, by Richard Russo Poetry - The Darkness and...
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  • Canada), wr. Taylor Caldwell (1900–1985, England/United States), nv. Hortense Calisher (1911–2009, United States), wr. Margaret Callan (c.1817–c.1883), Ireland/Australia)...
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  • Sontag, sculptor George Segal, trumpeter Ronald K. Anderson, writers Hortense Calisher and Herman Wouk, and set designer Ming Cho Lee. Visitors from China...
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