Bette Howland (1937–2017)
Auteur de Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
A propos de l'auteur
Bette Howland was born Bette Lee Sotonoff on January 28, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois. In 1961, she met Saul Bellow at a writers' conference on Staten Island and they started writing letters to each other that year. As a single mother with two young sons, she struggled. In 1968, she tried to commit afficher plus suicide and was temporary confined to a psychiatric ward. Her first book, W-3, was about the suicide attempt and its aftermath and was published in 1974. She also wrote Blue in Chicago, Things to Come and Go: Three Stories, and Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage. She died on December 13, 2017 at the age of 80. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de Bette Howland
S-3: Una memoria (Spanish Edition) 1 exemplaire
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Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- Sotonoff, Bette Lee (birth)
- Date de naissance
- 1937-01-28
- Date de décès
- 2017-12-13
- Sexe
- female
- Lieu de naissance
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
- Cause du décès
- multiple sclerosis and dementia
- Études
- University of Chicago (AB)
University of Iowa (MFA) - Professions
- fiction writer
literary critic
library aide
editor
teacher - Organisations
- MacArthur Grant (1984)
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 5
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 139
- Popularité
- #147,351
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 26
- Langues
- 2