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Bette Howland
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Bette Howland (January 28, 1937 – December 13, 2017) was an American writer and literary critic.[1] She wrote for Commentary Magazine.[2]
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Biography
Born Bette Lee Sotonoff to Sam Sotonoff, a machinist, and Jessie Berger, a homemaker, she focused much of her work on her native Chicago, though she left the city in 1975.[3]
In 1956, she married Howard Howland, a biologist. The couple had two sons but later separated and divorced, though she kept his surname.[1] She worked as a librarian and did editorial work for the University of Chicago Press. She was a protegee, and sometime lover of Saul Bellow.[4]
Howland died on December 13, 2017, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, aged 80, while living near one of her sons, the philosopher Jacob Howland.[1]
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Critical reappraisal
In 2013 editor Brigid Hughes found Howland's book W-3 and decided to include some of Howland's work in an issue of the literary journal A Public Space dedicated to obscure and forgotten women writers.[5]
A Public Space eventually decided to publish some of Howland's stories through their imprint in 2019, under the title Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage.[6][7]
Awards
- 1978: Guggenheim Fellow[8]
- 1984: MacArthur Fellows Program[9]
- 2022: Inductee in the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame.[10]
Works
Books
- 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[11]
- Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, Brooklyn, NY : A Public Space Books, 2019, ISBN 978-0-9982675-0-0
Short stories
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References
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