Hortense Calisher, Author, Dies at 97
By HOLCOMB B. NOBLE
Miss Calisher’s unpredictable turns of phrase, intellectually challenging fictional situations and complex plots captivated and puzzled readers for a half-century.
Miss Calisher’s unpredictable turns of phrase, intellectually challenging fictional situations and complex plots captivated and puzzled readers for a half-century.
Mr. Montalbán, one of Hollywood’s first Latino leading men, had a long career as a television and movie actor but is perhaps best remembered as the as the debonair concierge of “Fantasy Island.”
Mr. McGoohan was a multifaceted actor who spun television legend by creating and starring in the 1960s program “The Prisoner.”
Mr. Snodgrass found the stuff of poetry in the raw material of his emotional life and forged a bold, self-analytical poetic style in postwar America.
Mr. Naess’s ideas about promoting an intimate and all-embracing relationship between the earth and the human species inspired environmentalists and Green political activists around the world.
Gómez, the second Latin manager in major league baseball, had a career that spanned 65 seasons.
Few scholars of Chinese wrote more probingly about the language than Mr. DeFrancis, and fewer still created teaching materials that had so widespread an impact on generations of students.
Ms. Englund was a ballet mistress of ABT II, a former dancer with American Ballet Theater and the Joffrey Ballet and a former ballet mistress of the Joffrey II Dancers.
Ms. van Bruggen was a critic, art historian and artist known for the colorful public sculptures she created around the world with her husband, the Pop artist Claes Oldenburg.
Cardinal Laghi served as the Vatican’s first papal nuncio to Washington until 1990, and in 2003 urged President Bush not to start the war in Iraq.
Wood was the only player to win a Wimbledon championship without having to show up for the final match.
Mr. Snyder started Biocraft Laboratories in Elmwood Park, N.J., an early and highly successful manufacturer of generic equivalents for brand-name pharmaceuticals.
Friaca scored for Brazil in its 2-1 loss to Uruguay in the final game of the 1950 World Cup in Rio de Janeiro.
Mr. Ellis was a founder of the international real estate company Grubb & Ellis and a leader in the consolidation of small neighborhood brokerage companies into major national chains.
Mr. O'Horgan was a famously innovative director who brought a Downtown, countercultural sensibility to Uptown theater.
Mr. Berri was involved in every aspect of French cinema over more than a half-century as an actor, writer, director and producer.
Mr. Andrews rocked the art world when he bought 240 previously unknown Andrew Wyeth works depicting a mysterious, sometimes nude woman known as Helga.
Mr. Callender was an entrepreneur with a passion for pies who built the home-based baking business of his mother, Marie Callender, into a popular brand.
Those who passed from the scene last year included the folk singer Odetta, the actors Heath Ledger and Charlton Heston, and the writers David Foster Wallace and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
For 2008, an unabashedly idiosyncratic collection of profiles of 24 very different lives, all memorably lived.
Odetta became a force of the folk music revival in the 1950s. In the 1960s her renditions of spirituals and blues became part of the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.
Bruce Weber answered questions about the pleasures and difficulties of covering death.
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