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Bette Howland

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Bette Howland is an American writer and literary critic.

She wrote for Commentary Magazine.[1] She appeared at Yaddo.[2]

Much of her work has focused on the city of Chicago, although she left the city in 1975, living a migratory life around the USA; when she gained the MacArthur Fellowship she was able to give up her work and write full time, living in rural Pennsylvania.[3]

Awards

Works

  • The iron year, University of Iowa, 1967
  • W-3, Viking Press, 1974, ISBN 978-0-670-74863-1
  • Blue in Chicago, Harper & Row, 1978, ISBN 978-0-06-011957-7
  • Things to Come and Go: Three Stories, Knopf, 1983, ISBN 978-0-394-53032-1

Reviews

Things to Come and Go is a quirky collection of three long stories by a writer of unusual talent, power and intelligence.[6]

References

  1. ^ Braun, Aurel. "Search « Commentary Magazine". Commentarymagazine.com. Retrieved 2013-11-05.
  2. ^ "Yaddo MacArthur Fellows 1981 – 2013". Yaddo.org. Retrieved 2013-11-05.
  3. ^ Blades, John (March 18, 1993). "Home Again". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
  4. ^ [1] Archived 2010-02-02 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ "Bette Howland - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Gf.org. Retrieved 2013-11-05.
  6. ^ "DRY-EYED OBSERVER OF CITY LIVES", The New York Times, JOHANNA KAPLAN, March 20, 1983