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