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Hortense Calisher


USA flag (1911 - 2009)

aka Jack Fenno

Hortense Calisher, born in New York City in 1911, is author of fifteen novels, seven volumes of short fiction, and two memoirs. Her short stories began appearing in The New Yorker in 1948 and quickly became widely anthologized, as well as translated throughout the world. Among her best-known are In Greenwich There Are Many Gravelled Walks, Heartburn, The Night Club in the Woods, Il Ploer Da Mo Koer, A Wreath for Miss Totten, The Middle Drawer, and The Scream on Fifty-Seventh Street.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   False Entry (1961)
   Textures of Life (1963)
   Journal from Ellipsia (1965)
   The New Yorkers (1969)
   Queenie (1973)
   Eagle Eye (1973)
   On Keeping Women (1977)
   Mysteries of Motion (1983)
   Saratoga, Hot (1985)
   The Bobby-Soxer (1986)
   Age (1987)
   The Small Bang (1992) (as by Jack Fenno)
   In the Palace of the Movie King (1994)
   In the Slammer with Carol Smith (1998)
   Sunday Jews (2002)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Standard Dreaming (1972)
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Anthologies containing stories by Hortense Calisher
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White Fire (1991)
Further Fantastic Literature
edited by
Alberto Manguel
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Black Water 2 (1990)
More Tales of the Fantastic
(Black Water, book 2)
edited by
Alberto Manguel
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Haunting Women (1988)
edited by
Alan Ryan

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