![]() Howe's ancestors settled in Essex County, Massachusetts in the 1620s. He is sometimes credited with helping to launch Howe's literary career. The bestselling novelist Matthew Pearl, who also started writing fiction as a graduate student in English studies, is a core member of this group. Howe and her husband, the economic historian Louis Hyman (author of Debtor Nation), are core members of a group informally known as the "Springfield Street Table." This batch of Cambridge-area writers and scholars gather to play poker, while trading barbs and debating culture and ideas. ![]() ![]() ![]() It will build on archival research about patterns of trade and settlement on Galveston Island in the 1820s while engaging with the legacy of magical realist fiction in the American Southwest and in Mexico." It is tentatively titled The Galvez Grand. In 2016 she is a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, where she is finishing a novel set "among the corsairs of the Gulf Coast that imagines Texas’s role within the broader Caribbean diaspora. She began writing fiction while doing graduate work she earned an MA in American and New England Studies at Boston University. She earned her undergraduate degree in art history and philosophy at Columbia University. Howe was born and raised in Houston, Texas, where she graduated from the Kinkaid School. ![]()
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