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Born, (1911-12-20)December 20, 1911.
Hortense Calisher (born Dec. 20, 1911, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Jan. 13, 2009, New York) was an American writer of novels, novellas.
Calisher began writing after her divorce in her mid-thirties, drawing on her father's Southern roots and her own experiences as a New York Jew in suburbia to.

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Hortense Calisher Biography

Nationality: American. Born: New York City, 1911. Education: Hunter College High School, New York; Barnard College, New York, A.B. in philosophy 1932. Career: Adjunct professor of English, Barnard College, 1956-57; visiting professor, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1957, 1959-60, Stanford University, California, 1958, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, 1962, and Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1963-64; writer-in-residence, 1965, and visiting lecturer, 1968, Univeristy of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; adjunct professor of English, Columbia University, New York, 1968-70 and 1972-73; Clark Lecturer, Scripps College, Claremont, California, 1969; visiting professor, State University of New York, Purchase, 1971-72; Regents' Professor, University of California, Irvine, Spring 1976; visiting writer, Bennington College, Vermont, 1978; Hurst Professor, Washington University, St. Louis, 1979; National Endowment for the Arts Lecturer, Cooper Union, New York, 1983; visiting professor, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1986; g

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Calisher, Hortense (1911—)

American fiction writer. Born Hortense Calisher on December 20, 1911, in New York, New York; daughter of Hedwig (Lichstern) Calisher and Joseph Henry Calisher (a manufacturer); Barnard College, B.A., 1932; married Heaton Bennet Heffelfinger, in 1935 (divorced 1958); married Curtis Harnack, in 1959; children: (first marriage) Bennet and Peter Heffelfinger.

Selected works:

In the Absence of Angels (1951); False Entries (1961); The New Yorkers (1969); Queenie (1971); Herself (1972); The Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher(1975); On Keeping Women (1977); Mysteries of Motion (1973); Saratoga Hot (1985); In the Palace of the Movie King (1993).

Born in New York City to parents who were separated in age by 22 years, Hortense Calisher was raised in a household of dichotomies. Her mother, a German-Jewish émigré, fretted over

the details of daily life, especially those concerning finances, while her father, a Jewish manufacturer from Virginia, was easygoing and affectionate. Hortense's grandmother lived with the family as well, addi

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July 12, 2016

When I began reading I was reminded of the French film Amour from 2012. Anne and George (from the film) are not that dissimilar to Rupert and Gemma. Both couples are old—Rupert is 73, Gemma, 77 (the actors in the film were in their eighties)—and yet are still very much in love, a romantic love which for so many by that time of life has become too much work. All four are creative types—the French couple were both piano teachers, Rupert is a poet, Gemma an architect—and all, at least when we first meet them, are in reasonable health all things considered. And yet death is never far from their minds, dying more so.

In the film Anne suffers a stroke and it becomes clear she’s not going to recover. In the book it’s friends and family—is an ex-wife still family? ex-family, perhaps?—that suffer but they remind Rupert and Gemma that their time on this earth—and, more importantly, their time together—is limited. They decide to keep a joint journal, an almanac:

For company—to the one of us who survives. To be read by him or me—only afterward.
‘You start—’