CALISHER, Hortense

CALISHER, Hortense. Also writes as Jack Fenno. American, b. 1911. Genres: Novels, Novellas/Short stories, Autobiography/Memoirs. Career: Barnard Coll., adjunct professor of English, 1956-57; State University of Iowa, writer-in-residence, 1959-60; Sarah Lawrence Coll., faculty, 1962; Brandeis University, visiting professor of literature, 1963-64; University of Pennsylvania, writer-in-residence, 1965, visiting lectr., 1968; Columbia University, adjunct professor of English, 1968-70; University of California, regents professor, 1975; Brown University, distinguished professor, 1986. President, American P.E.N., 1986; President, American Academy/Inst. of Arts and Letters. 1987-90; winner of Lifetime Achievement Award, National Endowment for the Arts, 1989. Publications: NOVELS: False Entry, 1961; Tale for the Mirror, 1962; Textures of Life, 1963; Journal from Ellipsia, 1965; The New Yorkers, 1969; Queenie, 1971; Standard Dreaming, 1972; Eagle Eye, 1974; On Keeping Women, 1977; Mysteries of Motion, 1983; The Bobby-Soxer, 1986; Age, 1987; (as Jack Fenno) The Small Bang, 1992; In the Palace of the Movie-King, 1993; In the Slammer with Carol Smith, 1997; Sunday Jews, 2002. STORIES: In the Absence of Angels, 1951; Extreme Magic: A Novella and Other Stories, 1964; The Railway Police and The Last Trolley Ride (novellas), 1966; Collected Stories, 1975; Saratoga, Hot, 1985; The Novellas of Hortense Calisher, 1997. OTHER: Herself (autobiography), 1972; Kissing Cousins (memoir), 1988. Address: 205 W 57th St, New York, NY 10019, U.S.A.