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词条 Bette Howland
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  1. Personal life

  2. Awards

  3. Works

  4. Death

  5. References

{{Notability|date=December 2017}}Bette Howland (January 28, 1937 – December 13, 2017) was an American writer and literary critic. She wrote for Commentary Magazine.[1]

Personal life

Born Bette Lee Sotonoff to Sam Sotonoff, a machinist, and Jessie Berger, a homemaker, much of her work focused on her native Chicago, although she left the city in 1975.[2]

In 1956, she married Howard Howland, a biologist. The couple had two sons but later separated and divorced, although she kept his surname.[3] She worked as a librarian and did editorial work for the University of Chicago Press.[4]

Awards

  • 1984: MacArthur Fellows Program[5]
  • 1978: Guggenheim Fellow[6]

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}}

Death

Howland died on December 13, 2017 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, aged 80. She suffered from multiple sclerosis and dementia. She was survived by her two sons, Jacob and Frank; a sister, Mrs. Rochelle Altman; five grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter.[3]

References

1. ^{{cite web|last=Braun|first=Aurel|url=http://www.commentarymagazine.com/searcharchive.cfm?authorKeywords=Bette%252520%252520Howland|title=Search « Commentary Magazine|publisher=Commentarymagazine.com|accessdate=2013-11-05}}
2. ^{{cite news|last=Blades|first=John|title=Home Again|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1993-03-18/features/9303180095_1_writers-living-wendy-doniger|accessdate=November 5, 2013|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=March 18, 1993}}
3. ^[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/17/obituaries/bette-howland-author-and-protege-of-bellows-dies-at-80.html Obituary], Nytimes.com, December 17, 2017; accessed December 18, 2017.
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://lithub.com/bette-howland-the-tale-of-a-forgotten-genius|title=Bette Howland: The Tale of a Forgotten Genius - Literary Hub|website=Lithub.com|accessdate=18 December 2017}}
5. ^  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100202053926/http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.5499647/k.3CC8/Browse_Fellows_by_Area_The_Arts.htm|date=February 2, 2010 }}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/6902-bette-howland|title=Bette Howland - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|publisher=Gf.org|accessdate=2013-11-05|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105211909/http://www.gf.org/fellows/6902-bette-howland|archivedate=2013-11-05}}
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