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- Hortense Calisher was born on December 20, 1911 in New York City, New York, USA. She was a writer, known for American Playhouse (1980). She was married to Curtis Harnack and Heaton Bennett Heffelfinger. She died on January 13, 2009 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- SpousesCurtis Harnack(1959 - January 13, 2009) (her death)Heaton Bennett Heffelfinger(September 27, 1935 - 1958) (divorced, 2 children)
- Thick prose with long sentences and complex language
- She served terms as president of PEN and of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in the 1980s.
- She was nominated three times for the National Book Award, and was a four-time winner of the O. Henry Prize for short stories.
- After she graduated from Barnard College in 1932, she worked in several fields including social welfare and modeling. She didn't start writing professionally until the late 1940s.
- On growth: Perspective means having lived in a severe state of perception for some time.
- On growth: Life is a movable feast...a tour in a post chaise, but who's to be considered as moving, it or you? The answer is -- quick over the abyss, and be damned to being. Start doing.
- On reading: The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.
- On writing: This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action -- I will write it out. In the way that is natural to me. There I will dare anything.
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