Bette Howland, An Author Who Wrote Several Acclaimed Books, Won A Genius Grant, Disappeared And Was Recently Rediscovered, Has Died

Howland was 80. Her work “might never have resurfaced had not a copy of ‘W-3’ caught the eye of Brigid Hughes, editor of A Public Space, when she was browsing through a $1 cart at the Housing Works Bookstore in Manhattan in 2015. The book intrigued her, and some digging eventually led her to Jacob Howland. A Public Space now hopes eventually to reissue all of Ms. Howland’s books.”