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Howe, Fanny, 1940-

Fanny Howe, born in Buffalo (N.Y.) in 1940, is an award-winning poet, novelist, and filmmaker. She is the author of over 50 books of poetry and prose, including Manimal Woe (2021), Love and I: Poems (2019), Needle’s Eye: Passing Through Youth (2016), Second Childhood (2014), The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation (2009), The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word and Life (2003) and Indivisible (2000).

Howe was raised in Cambridge (Mass.) with her sisters, Susan Howe and Helen Howe Braider, who are also artists. Her father, Mark DeWolfe Howe, Jr., was a professor at Harvard Law School, a WWII veteran, a civil rights lawyer, and the first Charles Warren Professor in the History of American Law. Howe's mother, Mary Manning Howe, acted in the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, before emigrating to the United States, where she founded the experimental Poets’ Theatre in Cambridge in 1950.

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