Born Blanche Machon in 1923 in Daysland, Alberta, she graduated from the University of Alberta in 1944, worked as an assistant Chemistry lecturer at the University of Toronto, 1946-48, and as a public accountant in Penticton, 1958-68. When her husband, Bruce Howard, was elected to Parliament, she moved to Ottawa and began writing the newspaper column, "Report from Ottawa", 1969-72, for people in the Okanagan Valley. She is perhaps best known as the author of several novels such as The Immortal Soul of Edwin Carlysle (1977), Pretty Lady (1972), and The Manipulator (1972), for which she won the Canadian Booksellers' Award for outstanding first novel.
From the description of Blanche Howard fonds. 1955-1977. (University of British Columbia Library). WorldCat record id: 606460601
