Maud Howe Elliott (November 9, 1854, Boston, Massachusetts – March 19, 1948, Newport, Rhode Island) was an American writer, most notable for her Pulitzer prize-winning collaboration with her sister, Laura E. Richards, on their mother's biography The Life of Julia Ward Howe (1916). Her other works included A Newport Aquarelle (1883); Mammon; Roma Beata (1904); The Eleventh Hour in the Life of Julia Ward Howe (1911); Three Generations (1923); John Elliott, The Story of an Artist (1930); My Cousin, F. Marion Crawford (1934); and This Was My Newport (1944).
Her father was Samuel Gridley Howe (1801 – 1876), a prominent physician, abolitionist, and advocate of education for the blind. She married English artist John Elliott in 1887.
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