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Fanny Howe Obituary; Poet, Novelist and Literary Visionary died at 84

Kelilah Martins July 9, 2025

The literary world is mourning the loss of Fanny Howe, an extraordinary
voice in American letters, who passed away at the age of 84. Renowned for
her innovative work across poetry, fiction, and essays, Howe leaves behind
a powerful legacy defined by lyrical brilliance, spiritual inquiry, and unwavering intellectual depth.

Born in 1940 in Buffalo, New York, and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fanny was the daughter of Mary Manning, a Dublin-born playwright and
novelist, and Mark DeWolfe Howe, a distinguished Harvard Law School
professor and historian. From an early age, she was immersed in a world of art, literature, and ideasrCoa world she would help transform through her
own remarkable body of work.

Fanny HowerCOs contributions to literature were both prolific and genre- defying. Among her most influential works are her prose collections and novels, including The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation (2009), The Lives of
a Spirit / Glasstown: Where Something Got Broken (2005), and Nod (1998).
Her writing often moved fluidly between genres, addressing themes of
faith, justice, displacement, and transcendence with poetic grace and philosophical intensity.

In addition to her poetry and fiction, Howe wrote essays that challenged
and illuminated. The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word and Life (2003) is among her most celebrated worksrCoan intimate and intellectual reflection on writing, belief, and the human condition.

Her literary brilliance was widely recognized. She received the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in American poetry,
and the 2001 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for her Selected Poems. Her accolades also include awards from the National Endowment for the Arts,
the National Poetry Foundation, the California Council for the Arts, and
The Village Voice. She was a fellow at the Bunting Institute and the
MacDowell Colony, and was twice shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize,
in 2001 and 2005.

Despite her critical acclaim, Howe was always a writer more interested in seeking truth than in holding court. Her work explored spiritual longing, moral complexity, and the tension between language and silence. She gave readers not just art, but honest, searching thought, always grounded in
the mysteries of being human.

Fanny HowerCOs voice was singularrCointrospective, daring, and full of grace. Her passing marks the end of an era, but her work will continue to
inspire, provoke, and move generations to come. She leaves behind not only
an extraordinary literary legacy but also a profound imprint on the hearts
and minds of those who found refuge and revelation in her words.

She will be deeply missed and forever remembered.
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