Howe, Susan (1937–)
Howe, Susan (1937–)
American poet and literary critic. Born 1937 in Boston, MA; dau. of Mark DeWolfe Howe and Mary Manning Howe (Irish dramatist under Mary Manning); sister of Fanny Howe (writer) and Helen Howe; children: 2.
Became professor of English at State University of New York at Buffalo (1989); was distinguished fellow at Stanford Institute of the Humanities (1998); elected chancellor of Academy of American Poets (2000); works include My Emily Dickinson (1985), The Europe of Trusts: Selected Poems (1990), Singularities (1990), The Nonconformist's Memorial (1993), Pierce-Arrow (1999) and The Midnight (2003); also wrote books on literary history, including The Birth-Mark: Unsettling the Wilderness in American Literary History (1993), which was chosen as Times Literary Supplement's International Book of the Year.