Personal Life
Howe was born in Boston, MA and grew up in nearby Cambridge. Her mother, Mary Manning, was Irish and wrote plays and acted for the Abbey Theatre. Her father, Mark DeWolfe Howe, was a professor at Harvard Law School. Her sister is the poet Fanny Howe. Howe graduated from the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts (1961). She was married to the painter, Harvey Quaytman. She was married to her second husband, sculptor David von Schlegell, until his death (1992). Her third husband, Peter Hewitt Hare, a noted philosopher and Professor at the University of Buffalo, died in January 2008. She has two children, the painter R.H. Quaytman, and the writer Mark von Schlegell. She lives in Guilford, Connecticut and was a fall 2009 Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, where she is working on her newest poetic sequence A Collection of Poems and Essays.
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