“I would say we started what has become an avalanche of the rediscovery of women writers,” Ms. Howe told The Baltimore Sun in 1993. In 1943, Florence was admitted to Hunter College High School in Manhattan, ranked among the top public schools in the country. She graduated early and enrolled at Hunter College, “the place in which I learned to think,” she wrote in a memoir, “A Life in Motion” (2011). Within six years she married three times and took the surname of one of those husbands, Ed Howe. After three years of study at Wisconsin, Ms. Howe moved back to New York to teach at Hofstra College (now a university) and Queens College.

Source: New York Times September 13, 2020 17:48 UTC