Background
Howe, Fanny Quincy was born on October 15, 1940 in Buffalo. Daughter of Mark Dewolfe and Mary Manning Howe.
Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States
From 1958 to 1961 Fanny Howe attended Stanford University.
Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States
From 1958 to 1961 Fanny Howe attended Stanford University.
(Ellen thought she was through with love - but a handsome ...)
Ellen thought she was through with love - but a handsome young doctor and a wealthy old patient made her change her mind.
https://www.amazon.com/West-Coast-Nurse-Della-Field/dp/B000CE8HP4/?tag=2022091-20
1963
(Natalie Knight of the Navy Nurse Corps had come a long wa...)
Natalie Knight of the Navy Nurse Corps had come a long way from Oregon to the battle-torn plains and jungles of Vietnam. But it was a journey of love and devotion. She was looking for Tom, her Green Beret fiance. He had been reported as missing but Natalie did not give up hope. Se knew that Tom, and hundreds like him, needed her because she was a Vietnam Nurse.
https://www.amazon.com/Vietnam-Nurse-Della-Field/dp/B0007GPG4W/?tag=2022091-20
1966
https://www.amazon.com/Forty-Whacks-Fanny-Howe/dp/B002I9WFB8/?tag=2022091-20
1969
https://www.amazon.com/Eggs-poems-Fanny-Howe/dp/B001V7H79I
1970
https://www.amazon.com/First-Marriage-Fanny-Howe/dp/B000J2S1I2/?tag=2022091-20
1974
https://www.amazon.com/Bronte-Wilde-novel-Fanny-Howe/dp/0380005484/?tag=2022091-20
1976
(A woman travels among geographies both real and imagined ...)
A woman travels among geographies both real and imagined looking for her daughter.
https://www.amazon.com/Holy-Smoke-Fanny-Howe/dp/0914590553/?tag=2022091-20
1979
https://www.amazon.com/Poem-Single-Pallet-Fanny-Howe/dp/0932716105/?tag=2022091-20
1980
(Begins on a plantation long ago in the dark of night, whe...)
Begins on a plantation long ago in the dark of night, where a baby is taken from his unwed mother and given to a slave woman to raise as her own. Young Peter soon learns the torment and indignity of human bondage, but he also discovers the warmth and love of a beutiful black woman and the respect of his adopted people.
https://www.amazon.com/White-Slave-Fanny-Howe/dp/0380455919/?tag=2022091-20
1980
(Fourteen-year-old Casey learns about true and false frien...)
Fourteen-year-old Casey learns about true and false friends and the difference between dependence and love as she searches for her missing aunt in and around Boston.
https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Hills-Flare-original-mystery/dp/0380789981/?tag=2022091-20
1981
https://www.amazon.com/Alsace-Lorraine-Telephone-Books-Press-Fanny/dp/0916382281/?tag=2022091-20
1982
(When Aunt Bonnie moves into a different part of the city ...)
When Aunt Bonnie moves into a different part of the city with her new husband and Casey Quick, resulting problems have to be worked out between Casey and her boyfriend Willie.
https://www.amazon.com/Yeah-but-Avon-Flare-Book/dp/0380791862/?tag=2022091-20
1982
(For Erato: The Meaning of Life is a prose poem sequence b...)
For Erato: The Meaning of Life is a prose poem sequence by Fanny Howe, published in 1984.
https://www.amazon.com/ERATO-Meaning-Life-Tuumba-48/dp/B0000EEO0U/?tag=2022091-20
1984
(In The Middle of Nowhere is a fictional story set in a Ne...)
In The Middle of Nowhere is a fictional story set in a New England town. It shows a glimpse into the meeting of the lives of four characters. Moods of landscape and weather reflect their states of mind, and incline them towards actions which represent the terminal points of character.
https://www.amazon.com/Middle-Nowhere-Fanny-Howe/dp/0914590839/?tag=2022091-20
1984
(Casey, age fourteen, goes to New York to find the father ...)
Casey, age fourteen, goes to New York to find the father who abandoned her as a baby.
https://www.amazon.com/Radio-City-Avon-Flare-book/dp/0380860252/?tag=2022091-20
1984
(Fanny Howe explores the fears and freedoms of single moth...)
Fanny Howe explores the fears and freedoms of single motherhood in this newly reprinted collection, featuring cover art by her son, Maceo Senna.
https://www.amazon.com/Robeson-Street-Fanny-Howe/dp/0914086596/?tag=2022091-20
1985
(Pamela, daughter of alcoholic parents, gives up her wild ...)
Pamela, daughter of alcoholic parents, gives up her wild lifestyle when she falls in love with Tristan, a handsome patient she meets in the hospital.
https://www.amazon.com/Taking-Care-Fanny-Howe/dp/0380898640/?tag=2022091-20
1985
(Twelve-year-old Alex Porter, an expert racer on a lighter...)
Twelve-year-old Alex Porter, an expert racer on a lighter-than-air bicycle, fights to save his bike from irresponsible race promoters.
https://www.amazon.com/Race-Radical-Fanny-Howe/dp/0670805572/?tag=2022091-20
1985
(This is a collection of poetry.)
This is a collection of poetry.
https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-World-Fanny-Howe/dp/0935724214/?tag=2022091-20
1986
https://www.amazon.com/Vineyard-Lost-Roads-34/dp/0918786371/?tag=2022091-20
1988
https://www.amazon.com/SIC-Fanny-Howe/dp/B004YR7VYI/?tag=2022091-20
1988
(This novel is about racial identity in 1960s Boston.)
This novel is about racial identity in 1960s Boston.
https://www.amazon.com/Deep-North-New-American-Fiction/dp/1557130256/?tag=2022091-20
1988
(This is a collection of poetry.)
This is a collection of poetry.
https://www.amazon.com/Quietist-Fanny-Howe/dp/1882022122/?tag=2022091-20
1992
https://www.amazon.com/Saving-History-Sun-Moon-Classics/dp/1557131007/?tag=2022091-20
1993
https://www.amazon.com/OClock-Fanny-Howe-30-Jun-1995-Paperback/dp/B013J9NICK/?tag=2022091-20
1995
(One Crossed Out presents a portrait painted from the insi...)
One Crossed Out presents a portrait painted from the inside of the life of a homeless woman. The poems speak in the voice of May, the girl crossed out, the bad girl, the mad and drunk girl, the jailed and drugged girl. May is swirling in language, and the language convinces us that we really are deep in the core of a human consciousness, near the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart. May is a neonomad, bringing to the world the opposite of worldliness, offering a glimpse of the invisible.
https://www.amazon.com/One-Crossed-Out-Fanny-Howe/dp/1555972594/?tag=2022091-20
1997
(In Nod, her ninth book of fiction, American novelist and ...)
In Nod, her ninth book of fiction, American novelist and poet Fanny Howe explores sibling rivalry within a family that, in the wake of World War II, is both disintegrating and stumbling into the terrible, dark adulthood of the latter half of the Twentieth Century. Yet for all of the dark forces at work in Howe's novel, she presents also a world of wonder, of sexual awakenings interlinked with the Irish countryside and culture in which the girls grow up, the strange stories and myths they hear from the Norwegian north and retell through their own highly-wrought imaginations. The central figures of this fiction, Irene and Cloda, interact with one another and the man who has encamped in their ghost-, now guest-room, as if playing out the lives of the Brontes to a packed theater audience.
https://www.amazon.com/Nod-American-Fiction-Fanny-Howe/dp/1557133077/?tag=2022091-20
1998
(In Forged daily experience is the density in which these ...)
In Forged daily experience is the density in which these poems take shape, in the heated atmosphere of the forge where peril is frequent. As elsewhere in her prose, she [Howe] creates her in poetry, a layered atmosphere of mystery and spiritual solution - Barbara Guest. Did I believe or was it hope/ like a fir tree in a child's nursery/ candlelights on thistleballs/ at a village called Manningtree.
https://www.amazon.com/FORGED-Fanny-Howe/dp/0942996364/?tag=2022091-20
1999
(Howe's theme is the exile of the spirit in this world and...)
Howe's theme is the exile of the spirit in this world and the painfully exciting, tiny margin in which movement out of exile is imaginable and perhaps possible. Her best poems are simultaneously investigations of that possibility and protests against the difficulty of salvation.
https://www.amazon.com/Selected-Poems-Fanny-California-Poetry/dp/0520222636/?tag=2022091-20
2000
(This odd, transcendent and triumphant novel published in ...)
This odd, transcendent and triumphant novel published in 2000 completes a quasi-autobiographical, radically philosophical series of fictions Howe began with First Marriage, published in 1972. Like Howe, Henny's life spans the tempestuous multi-racial world of hipsters and activists in working-class Boston during the 60s and its subsequent fall-out. On the verge of religious conversion, Henny, the book's narrator, locks her husband McCool in a closet so that she might talk better to God. Then she proceeds to make peace with the dead by telling their stories.
https://www.amazon.com/Indivisible-Native-Agents-Fanny-Howe/dp/1584350091/?tag=2022091-20
2000
(Largely set in Boston, Fanny Howe's Economics examines wi...)
Largely set in Boston, Fanny Howe's Economics examines with an unwavering eye the necessary errors of the 1960s liberalism and consequences of cold war politics. A white liberal couple adopts a black child with troubling results; two old friends from the Kennedy campaign meet years later to discover how different their lives have become; a separated working-class couple drives to the Cape in order to collect the prize from an instant lotto game. In each story, love is eroded by class expectations and financial pressures, by racial tensions and ideological hypocrisies. As a result Economics offers a raw portrait of the last three decades that is at once comic and devastating.
https://www.amazon.com/Economics-Fanny-Howe/dp/097100594X/?tag=2022091-20
2002
(The poems in Gone describe the transit of a psyche, drive...)
The poems in Gone describe the transit of a psyche, driven by uncertainty and by love, through various stations and experiences. This volume of short poems and one lyrical essay, all written in the last five years, is broken into five parts; and the longest of these, "The Passion," consecrates the contradictions between these two emotions.
https://www.amazon.com/Gone-Poems-New-California-Poetry/dp/0520238109
2003
(With figures X, Y, and Z, Fanny Howe constructs "a repres...)
With figures X, Y, and Z, Fanny Howe constructs "a repressed but emotional history" of encounters and unions between races, classes, genders, and epochs. Considering race as "the most random quality assigned to a soul," Howe has undertaken an (American) history of a racially mixed population.
https://www.amazon.com/Thee-Atelos-Project-Fanny-Howe/dp/1891190164/?tag=2022091-20
2003
(In times of great uncertainty, the urgency of the artist'...)
In times of great uncertainty, the urgency of the artist's task is only surpassed by its difficulty. Ours is such a time, and rising to the challenge, novelist and poet Fanny Howe suggests new and fruitful ways of thinking about both the artist's role and the condition of doubt. In these original meditations on bewilderment, motherhood, imagination, and art-making, Howe takes on conventional systems of belief and argues for another, brave way of proceeding. In the essays "Immanence" and "Work and Love" and those on writers such as Carmelite nun Edith Stein, French mystic Simone Weil, Thomas Hardy, and Ilona Karmel - who were particularly affected by political, philosophical, and existential events in the twentieth century - she directly engages questions of race, gender, religion, faith, language, and political thought and, in doing so, expands the field of the literary essay. A richly evocative memoir, "Seeing Is Believing," situates Howe's own domestic and political life in Boston in the late '60s and early '70s within the broader movement for survival and social justice in the face of that city's racism.
https://www.amazon.com/Wedding-Dress-Meditations-Word-Life/dp/0520238400/?tag=2022091-20
2003
(Fanny Howe's bold new collection responds to the contrast...)
Fanny Howe's bold new collection responds to the contrast between American imperialist goals and the realities of life lived "on the ground." While our minds are preoccupied with the war games on television, we go on living among our ordinary joys and appetites. How can we live under these dissonant conditions and reconcile our existence with our longings?
https://www.amazon.com/Ground-Poems-Fanny-Howe/dp/1555974031/?tag=2022091-20
2004
(In this brilliant work that transcends genre - lyric essa...)
In this brilliant work that transcends genre - lyric essay, prose poem, philosophical fiction - Fanny Howe pursues her realization that keen metaphysical inquiry is radically essential to everyday life.
https://www.amazon.com/Lives-Spirit-Glasstown-Something-Broken/dp/0976718510/?tag=2022091-20
2005
(Radical Love gathers five of Fanny Howe's novels: Nod, Th...)
Radical Love gathers five of Fanny Howe's novels: Nod, The Deep North, Famous Questions, Saving History, and Indivisible, previously out-of-print and hard to find classics whose characters wrestle with serious political and metaphysical questions against the backdrop of urban, suburban, and rural America.
https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Love-Novels-Fanny-Howe/dp/0976718537/?tag=2022091-20
2006
https://www.amazon.com/Lyrics-Author-Fanny-Howe-July/dp/B01BOEGQG2/?tag=2022091-20
2007
(Buchenwald survivors Ilona and Henia Karmel were seventee...)
Buchenwald survivors Ilona and Henia Karmel were seventeen and twenty years old when they entered the Nazi labor camps from the Kraków ghetto. These remarkable poems were written during that time. The sisters wrote the poems on worksheets stolen from the factories where they worked by day and hid them in their clothing. During what she thought were the last days of her life, Henia entrusted the poems to a cousin who happened to pass her in the forced march at the end of the war. The cousin gave them to Henia's husband in Kraków, who would not locate and reunite with his wife for another six months. This is the first English publication of these extraordinary poems. Fanny Howe's deft adaptations preserve their freshness and innocence while making them entirely compelling. They are presented with a biographical introduction that conveys the powerful story of the sisters' survival from capture to freedom in 1946. Buchenwald survivors Ilona and Henia Karmel were seventeen and twenty years old when they entered the Nazi labor camps from the Kraków ghetto. These remarkable poems were written during that time. The sisters wrote the poems on worksheets stolen from the factories where they worked by day and hid them in their clothing. During what she thought were the last days of her life, Henia entrusted the poems to a cousin who happened to pass her in the forced march at the end of the war. The cousin gave them to Henia's husband in Kraków, who would not locate and reunite with his wife for another six months. This is the first English publication of these extraordinary poems. Fanny Howe's deft adaptations preserve their freshness and innocence while making them entirely compelling. They are presented with a biographical introduction that conveys the powerful story of the sisters' survival from capture to freedom in 1946.
https://www.amazon.com/Wall-Two-Resistance-Suffering-Buchenwald/dp/0520251369/?tag=2022091-20
2007
(Episodic and picaresque, Fanny Howe's novella What Did I ...)
Episodic and picaresque, Fanny Howe's novella What Did I Do Wrong? tells the story of a revolutionary mutt's journey through the kennels, parks, and suburban waste spaces around Boston in search of true freedom. This dog offers a firsthand account of the cruelty meted out to both animals and forgotten members of human society. Like The Golden Ass, What Did I Do Wrong? takes on moral and spiritual questions without abandoning earthly appetites. In a twist on the fabulous tradition established by Apuleius, we are urged not to maintain our humanity but rather to look for the dog within. Illustrated by Colleen McCallion.
https://www.amazon.com/What-Did-I-Do-Wrong/dp/0981952003/?tag=2022091-20
2009
(Fanny Howe's richly contemplative The Winter Sun is a col...)
Fanny Howe's richly contemplative The Winter Sun is a collection of essays on childhood, language, and meaning by one of America's most original contemporary poets.
https://www.amazon.com/Winter-Sun-Notes-Vocation/dp/1555975208/?tag=2022091-20
2009
(Fanny Howe's poetry is known for its lyricism, fragmentat...)
Fanny Howe's poetry is known for its lyricism, fragmentation, experimentation, religious engagement, and commitment to social justice. In Second Childhood, the observing poet is an impersonal figure who accompanies Howe in her encounters with chance and mystery. She is not one age or the other, in one time or another. She writes, "The first question in the Catechism is: / What was humanity born for? / To be happy is the correct answer."
https://www.amazon.com/Second-Childhood-Poems-Fanny-Howe/dp/1555976824/?tag=2022091-20
2014
Howe, Fanny Quincy was born on October 15, 1940 in Buffalo. Daughter of Mark Dewolfe and Mary Manning Howe.
Student, Stanford University, 1961.
Lecturer Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, 1968-1971, Columbia University, New York City, 1975-1978, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1978-1987. Associate director Education Abroad-University of California, London, 1993-1995. Professor University California, San Diego, since 1987.
(Radical Love gathers five of Fanny Howe's novels: Nod, Th...)
2006(In Nod, her ninth book of fiction, American novelist and ...)
1998(Episodic and picaresque, Fanny Howe's novella What Did I ...)
2009(In this brilliant work that transcends genre - lyric essa...)
2005(This odd, transcendent and triumphant novel published in ...)
2000(When Aunt Bonnie moves into a different part of the city ...)
1982(Fourteen-year-old Casey learns about true and false frien...)
1981(Fanny Howe's richly contemplative The Winter Sun is a col...)
2009(Largely set in Boston, Fanny Howe's Economics examines wi...)
2002(Howe's theme is the exile of the spirit in this world and...)
2000(With figures X, Y, and Z, Fanny Howe constructs "a repres...)
2003(Pamela, daughter of alcoholic parents, gives up her wild ...)
1985(Begins on a plantation long ago in the dark of night, whe...)
1980(Fanny Howe explores the fears and freedoms of single moth...)
1985(Buchenwald survivors Ilona and Henia Karmel were seventee...)
2007(Fanny Howe's bold new collection responds to the contrast...)
2004(In Forged daily experience is the density in which these ...)
1999(Twelve-year-old Alex Porter, an expert racer on a lighter...)
1985(Fanny Howe's poetry is known for its lyricism, fragmentat...)
2014(The poems in Gone describe the transit of a psyche, drive...)
2003(Ellen thought she was through with love - but a handsome ...)
1963(Natalie Knight of the Navy Nurse Corps had come a long wa...)
1966(In times of great uncertainty, the urgency of the artist'...)
2003(One Crossed Out presents a portrait painted from the insi...)
1997(For Erato: The Meaning of Life is a prose poem sequence b...)
1984(Casey, age fourteen, goes to New York to find the father ...)
1984(A woman travels among geographies both real and imagined ...)
1979(In The Middle of Nowhere is a fictional story set in a Ne...)
1984(This novel is about racial identity in 1960s Boston.)
1988(This is a collection of poetry.)
1986(This is a collection of poetry.)
1992Fellow Bunting Institute.
Married Carl Francisco Senna, October 28, 1968 (divorced November 1978). Children: Annelucien Senna, Danzy Senna, Maceo Senna.
