Frances Minturn Howard (March 15, 1905

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– July 23, 1995

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) was an American

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Life

She studied sculpture in Italy. In 1957, she met and corresponded with

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. In 1959,

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came to dinner. She was published in ''Virginia Quarterly Review'', ''Saturday Review'', ''AGNI'', ''The New Yorker'', ''Poetry Magazine'', She was married to Thomas Clark Howard and lived at 46 Mount Vernon Street.

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. Earlier in their marriage, they had lived in New York City and Providence, Rhode Island. They also maintained a summer house on Rhode Island Avenue, in Newport, Rhode Island.

Awards

* 1955

Golden Rose Award The Golden Rose Award, one of America’s oldest literary prizes, was inaugurated in 1919. The rose was modeled after the Gold Rose which is now in the Cluny Museum in Paris. ThNew England Poetry Clubawards the Rose annually for American poetry. ...

1957 Events January * January 1 – The Saarland joins West Germany. * January 3 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. * January 5 – South African player Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be Dismissal (cricke ...

Reynolds Lyric Award

Works

Poetry

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Anthologies

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Non-fiction

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References

1905 births 1995 deaths American women poets 20th-century American poets 20th-century American women writers People from Beacon Hill, Boston Poets from New York City Writers from Providence, Rhode Island American expatriates in Italy {{US-poet-1900s-stub