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Calisher, Hortense (December 20, 1911 – January 13, 2009) Website; Celestial Timepiece; Guardian obit; New York Times obit

2009 – Deaths C-F « The Graveyard 2010
In the very depths of the Depression, in 1932 Calisher graduated from Barnard College with a major in English and a minor in philosophy.

Hortense Calisher. 2009
Eight years after her first novel, Calisher published its companion, The New Yorkers (1969).

Hortense Calisher. 2009
Calisher then returned to her own memories as the source for her third autobiographical work, Tatoo for a Slave (2004).

Hortense Calisher. 2009
Calisher spent the 1940s moving from one suburb to another.

Hortense Calisher. 2009
In 1935, Calisher married engineer Heaton Heffelfinger.

Hortense Calisher. 2009
Reminiscing about her household, Calisher observed that its clashes of cultures and personalities were “bound to produce someone interested in character, society, and time” (Current Biography Yearbook) — in other words, a writer.

Hortense Calisher. 2009
Eventually, Calisher turned to writing stories, the first of which she composed in her head while walking her son to school.

Hortense Calisher. 2009
A year later Calisher published Age, an unflinching yet elegant novel about old age.

Hortense Calisher. 2009
In 1983, at age seventy-two, when most novelists are hardly breaking new ground, Calisher published perhaps her most ambitious novel, Mysteries of Motion.

Hortense Calisher. 2009