Background
Mrs. Howard was born on May 4, 1935, in Springfield, Illinois, United States. She was a daughter of Eleanor Nee Howard and newspaper reporter Robert Pickerell Howard.
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Mrs. Howard was born on May 4, 1935, in Springfield, Illinois, United States. She was a daughter of Eleanor Nee Howard and newspaper reporter Robert Pickerell Howard.
Jane Temple Howard earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from University of Michigan in 1956. In 1979 she obtained Doctor of Letters (honorary) from Grinell College. In 1984 Mrs. Howard Doctor of Humane Letters from Hamline University.
After receiving her degree from the University of Michigan, Mrs. Howard joined the staff of Time-Life as an editorial trainee. In 1956, she began writing profiles for Life magazine, she worked there till 1972. Jane Howard served as a visiting lecturer at Writers Workshop, University of Iowa in 1974, University of Georgia, School Journalism, in 1975, Yale University in 1976, State University of New York-Albany in 1978. She was a John Steinbeck Writer-in-Residence at Southampton College (Summer 1982), and a James Thurber Writer-in Residence at Ohio State University (Fall 1986). During the summers of 1989 and 1990, Mrs. Howard led non-fiction writing workshops at the Split Rock Arts Program at the University of Minnesota at Duluth. She was also a professor of creative writing at Columbia University for several years during the 1990s.
Her first book, Please Touch: A Guided Tour of the Human Potential Movement, was published in 1970. She followed this with A Different Woman and Families. In 1984, Mrs. Howard chronicled the life of anthropologist Margaret Mead, travelling to New Zealand and Australia to conduct nearly 300 interviews with people who knew Mead.
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Quotations: "Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one."
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