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

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and in 1887 from

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(Master of Arts, 1888) He served as associate editor of the ''

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'' from 1888 to 1893 and from 1899 to 1913 He also served as assistant editor of the '' Atlantic Monthly'' in 1893-1895, and as editor of the ''

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'' until 1913. He was vice president of the ''Atlantic Monthly'' company from 1911 to 1929. As an author, he won the 1925 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for ''

Barrett Wendell Barrett Wendell (August 23, 1855 – February 8, 1921) was an American academic known for a series of textbooks including ''English Composition,'' studies of ''Cotton Mather'' and ''William Shakespeare,'' ''A Literary History of America,'' ''The F ...

and His Letters.'' He was the editor of ''Harvard Volunteers in Europe'' in 1916. He received an honorary Litt. D. from Lehigh in 1916. In 1899, he married Fanny Huntington Quincy (1870–1933), an essayist and author, who was a sister to

Josiah Quincy (1859–1919) Josiah Quincy VI (; October 15, 1859 – September 8, 1919) was an American politician from Massachusetts who served as mayor of Boston from 1896 to 1900. His grandfather Josiah Quincy IV (known as Josiah Quincy Jr.) and great-grandfather Jos ...

The couple had two sons and one daughter: journalist

Quincy Howe Quincy Howe (August 17, 1900 – February 17, 1977) was an American journalist, best known for his CBS radio broadcasts during World War II. Biography Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he was the son of Mark Anthony De Wolfe Howe, sister of ...

(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.

Published works

Besides editing ''The Memory of

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'' (1889), ''Home Letters of

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'' (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) * ''Who Lived Here?'' (1952)

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(Volume 14: 1969) page 457. *

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