Bette Howland
Bette Howland (January 28, 1937 – December 13, 2017) was an American writer and literary critic. She wrote for Commentary Magazine. Biography
Born Bette Lee Sotonoff to Sam Sotonoff, a machinist, and Jessie Berger, a homemaker, she focused much of her work on her native Chicago, though she left the city in 1975. In 1956, she married Howard Howland, a  biologist. The couple had two sons but later separated and divorced, though she kept his surname. She worked as a librarian and did editorial work for the University of Chicago Press. Howland died on December 13, 2017, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, aged 80, while living near one of her sons. Critical reappraisal
In 2013 editor Brigid Hughes found Howland's book W-3 and decided to include some of Howland's work in an issue of the literary journal A Public Space dedicated to obscure and forgotten women writers. A Public Space eventually decided to publish some of Howland's stories through their imprint in 2019, under the title Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage. Awards
 1978: Guggenheim Fellow
 1984: MacArthur Fellows Program
 2022: Inductee in the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. Works
The iron year, University of Iowa, 1967
W-3, Viking Press, 1974; 
Blue in Chicago, Harper & Row, 1978; 
Things to Come and Go: Three Stories, Knopf, 1983; 
Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, Brooklyn, NY : A Public Space Books, 2019, ISBN 978-0-9982675-0-0

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1937 births
2017 deaths
Jewish American writers
American women short story writers
American short story writers
Deaths from dementia in Oklahoma
Deaths from multiple sclerosis
People with multiple sclerosis
MacArthur Fellows
21st-century American Jews
21st-century American women