Maureen Howard

ABOUT MAUREEN HOWARD

An American writer, editor, and lecturer, she wasknown for her 1978 autobiography, Facts of Life. Her novels included Not a Word about Nightingales; Before My Time; Natural History; and A Lover's Almanac.

After graduating from Smith College, she worked in advertising for many years.

She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and was named a Radcliffe Institute Fellow in the same year.

She married Professor Daniel F. Howard in 1954.

She taught at Amherst College, where Elliot Greenbaum once studied.