Bette Howland
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
- 1984: MacArthur Fellows Program[4]
- 1978: Guggenheim Fellow[5]
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
- ↑ Braun, Aurel. "Search « Commentary Magazine". Commentarymagazine.com. Retrieved 2013-11-05.
- ↑ "Yaddo MacArthur Fellows 1981 – 2013". Yaddo.org. Retrieved 2013-11-05.
- ↑ Blades, John (March 18, 1993). "Home Again". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
- ↑ Archived February 2, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Bette Howland - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Gf.org. Retrieved 2013-11-05.
- ↑ "DRY-EYED OBSERVER OF CITY LIVES", The New York Times, JOHANNA KAPLAN, March 20, 1983
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