Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe (writer)

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Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe (1864-1960)
For other people named Mark Howe, see Mark Howe (disambiguation).

Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe Jr. (August 23, 1864 – December 6, 1960) was an American editor, author, and recipient of the 1925

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
.

Biography

Howe was born in Bristol, Rhode Island, the son of Bishop Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe and Eliza Whitney. In 1886, he graduated from Lehigh University and in 1887 from Harvard University (Master of Arts, 1888).

He served as associate editor of the

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for Barrett Wendell and His Letters. He was the editor of Harvard Volunteers in Europe in 1916. He received an honorary Litt. D. from Lehigh in 1916.[2]

In 1899, he married Fanny Huntington Quincy (1870–1933),[3] an essayist and author, who was a sister to Josiah Quincy (1859–1919) The couple had two sons and one daughter: journalist Quincy Howe (1900-1977), author Helen Huntington Howe (1905-1975), and Mark De Wolfe Howe (1906-1967), Harvard law professor and civil rights leader. He lived in Boston, and had a summer home in Cotuit, Massachusetts. He died at the home of his son Mark in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[4]

Published works

Besides editing The Memory of Lincoln (1889), Home Letters of General Sherman (1909), The Beacon Biographies (31 volumes, 1899–1910), and Lines of Battle and Other Poems by Henry Howard Brownell (1912), he published the following:

  • Shadows (1897)
  • American Bookmen (1898)
  • Phillips Brooks (1899)
  • Boston: The Place and People (1903)
  • Life and Letters of George Bancroft (1908)
  • Harmonics: A Book of Verse (1909)
  • Boston Common: Scenes from Four Centuries (1910)
  • Life and Labors of Bishop Hare, Apostle to the Sioux (1911)
  • Letters of Charles Eliot Norton (1813), with Sara Norton
  • The Boston Symphony Orchestra (1914)
  • The Harvard Volunteers in Europe (1916)
  • The Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1918)
  • The Atlantic Monthly and Its Makers (1919)
  • George von Lengerke Meyer, His Life and Public Services (1919)
  • Memoirs of the Harvard Dead in the War against Germany two volumes, (1920, 1921)
  • Classic Shades (1928)
  • John Jay Chapman and His Letters (1937)
  • Who Lived Here? (1952)

See also

Notes and references

  1. ^ Massachusetts Historical Society: Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, and Upham Family Papers, 1633-1910
  2. ^ Chi Phi Centennial Memorial Volume[full citation needed]
  3. ^ Helen Howe, The Gentle Americans (New York: Harper & Row, 1965), 71.
  4. ^ C. K. S. (April 1961). "Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe" (PDF). Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society. 71: 8–9.
  • Encyclopedia Americana (Volume 14: 1969) page 457.
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