# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hortense-calisher
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:29:02.466Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hortense-calisher"
name: "Hortense Calisher"
slug: "hortense-calisher"
description: "Hortense Calisher was an American writer of fiction and the second female president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters."
tagline: "American novelist, short story writer, and memoirist (1911-2009)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/df/Hortense_Calisher.jpg/330px-Hortense_Calisher.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1911-12-20"
deathDate: "2009-01-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.78
  momentum:             0.1098901098901099
  historical:           7.676602666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "هورتينس كاليشير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hortense_Calisher"
    title: "Hortense Calisher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hortense_Calisher"
    title: "Hortense Calisher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hortense_Calisher"
    title: "Hortense Calisher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hortense_Calisher"
    title: "Hortense Calisher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hortense_Calisher"
    title: "Hortense Calisher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hortense_Calisher"
    title: "Hortense Calisher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hortense_Calisher"
    title: "Hortense Calisher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436082"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump