Bette Howland

Bette Howland is an American writer and literary critic.
She wrote for Commentary Magazine. She appeared at Yaddo.
Much of her work has focused on the city of Chicago, although she left the city in 1975, living a migratory life around the USA; when she gained the MacArthur Fellowship she was able to give up her work and write full-time, living in rural Pennsylvania.

• 1984: MacArthur Fellows Program
• 1978: Guggenheim Fellow

• [1] Archived February 2, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
• "Bette Howland - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Gf.org. Retrieved 2013-11-05. 

• The iron year, University of Iowa, 1967
• W-3, Viking Press, 1974, ISBN 978-0-670-74863-1
• Blue in Chicago, Harper & Row, 1978, ISBN 978-0-06-011957-7
• Things to Come and Go: Three Stories, Knopf, 1983, ISBN 978-0-394-53032-1

Things to Come and Go is a quirky collection of three long stories by a writer of unusual talent, power and intelligence.