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Bette Howland

Bette Howland (1937-2017) was the author of three books: W-3 , Blue in Chicago , and Things to Come and Go . She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1984, after which though she continued writing she would not publish another book. Near the end of her life, her stories found new readers when a portfolio of her work appeared in a special issue of A Public Space magazine exploring a generation of women writers, their lifetimes of work, and questions of anonymity and public attention in art.