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

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. Archived February 2, 2010, 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