Blanche Willis Howard (July 20, 1847 – October 7, 1898) (married name: Blanche Willis Howard von Teuffel) was an American writer whose novels developed out of the genre of Sentimentalism to Realism to the New Woman.

The publisher of One Summer was James R. Osgood, who began his career with Ticknor and Fields and later was in partnership with Henry Houghton.

Following publication of One Summer, Howard went to Europe, having received an assignment from the Boston Evening Transcript for a series of articles.

Howard settled in Stuttgart, Germany and continued to write, producing novels, short fiction, poems, and essays.

[3][4][5] Some of Howard's publications were translated into several European languages, including French, German, and Italian.