Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe (writer)

Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe (also Anthony, DeWolf and Jr; Bristol, Rhode Island – December 6, 1960 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American editor and author.

Early life and education

In 1886, he graduated from Lehigh University and in 1887 from Harvard (A.M., 1888), where his son later taught law. He received an honorary Litt. D. from Lehigh in 1916.^[1]

Family

He was the son of Bishop Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe^[2]

He married Fanny Huntington Quincy (1870–1933), also an essayist and author, who was a sister to Josiah Quincy (1859–1919) and the daughter of Helen Fanny Huntington (1831–1903) & Josiah Phillips Quincy, poet, writer, and publicist.

He had two sons and one daughter: Quincy Howe (1900-1977), news analyst and author, Helen Huntington Howe (1905-1975), monologuist and novelist who married Reginald Allen, and Mark De Wolfe Howe (1906-1967), Harvard law professor, historian, biographer, civil rights leader.^[3]

Career

He served as associate editor of the Youth's Companion from 1888 to 1893 and again from 1899 to 1913, as assistant editor of the Atlantic Monthly in 1893-1895, and as editor of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin until 1913. He was also Vice President of the Atlantic Monthly company from 1911 to 1929. As an author he won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for Barrett Wendell and His Letters. He was the editor of Harvard Volunteers in Europe in 1916.

Published works

Besides editing The Memory of Lincoln (1889), Home Letters of General Sherman (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)
• Who Lived Here? (1952)

Notes and references

1. Chi Phi Centennial Memorial Volume
3. Massachusetts Historical Society: Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, and Upham Family Papers, 1633-1910

• Encyclopedia Americana (Volume 14: 1969) page 457.
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "^{article name needed}". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

External links

• Works by or about Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe at Internet Archive
• Works by Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)