Hortense Calisher
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About
An American fiction writer who wrote under the male pen name of Jack Fenno, she is most famous for her O. Henry award-winning short story, The Night Club in the Woods. Her novels include Journal from Ellipsia and Standard Dreaming.
Before Fame
She grew up in New York City. She published her first short story collection, In the Absence of Angels, in 1951.
Trivia
She was a three-time National Book Award finalist.
Family Life
She was married twice and had two children. When she died at the age of ninety-seven, she was survived by her second husband, Curtis Harnack, and by her son, Peter Heffelfinger.
Associated With
Her writing is sometimes compared to that of Jane Austen.
