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Full Name: Hortense Calisher
Biography:
(1911-2009) Author, novelist. Hortense Calisher was born and died in Manhattan, New York. The setting for much of her writing was Manhattan, New York.
Author's Timeline:
1911 New York County
Hortense Calisher was born in Manhattan, New York, in 1911. 
2009 New York County
Hortense Calisher lived in Manhattan, New York, and died there in 2009. 
1983 (Unknown) County
Mysteries of Motion
(Pub: Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company. ISBN: )
Novel. 
1972 (Unknown) County
Standard Dreaming
(Pub: New York: Arbor House. ISBN: )
Novel. 
1969 (Unknown) County
The New Yorkers
(Pub: Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN: )
Novel. 
1972 (Unknown) County
Herself
(Pub: New York: Arbor House. ISBN: )
Novel. 
1988 (Unknown) County
Kissing Cousins
(Pub: New York, New York: Weidenfield and Nicholson. ISBN: )
Novel. 
2004 (Unknown) County
Tattoo For A Slave
(Pub: New York: Harcourt, Inc. ISBN: )
Novel. 
1929 New York County
Ms. Calisher graduated from Hunter College High School, and, then entered Barnard College in 1929. 
1935 Rockland County
Ms. Calisher married in 1935, had two children, and eventually moved to Nyack, New York, with her family, and lived there for several years. 
1951 (Unknown) County
In The Absence Of Angels
(Pub: Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN: )
Collection of short stories. 
1961 (Unknown) County
False Entry
(Pub: Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN: )
Novel. 
1963 (Unknown) County
Textures Of Life
(Pub: Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN: )
Novel. 
1965 (Unknown) County
Journal From Ellipsia
(Pub: Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN: )
Science fiction. 
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