Jane Howard (journalist)

She contributed articles to many publications and wrote several books; most well-known was her biography of Margaret Mead.

Her father, Robert Pickrell Howard, (1905-1989) was a historian, a political newsreporter and correspondent for the Chicago Tribune for nearly three decades.

[4] Her mother, Eleanor, died in 1971, when Jane was in her mid-thirties; her father remarried later, to Elizabeth Thomas (Appel).

Some of her work included interviews with novelists, Vladimir Nabokov, (pen name Vladimir Sirin) Truman Capote, Pulitzer prize-winning author John Updike, and Jacqueline Susann, author of "Valley of the Dolls.

[4][6] Columbia University Libraries, maintains a collection of her works in their archives including correspondence, manuscripts, drafts, notes, journals, scrapbooks, audio tapes, datebooks and calendars, photographs, printed material, memorabilia, and files containing information about articles that she researched and wrote while on the staff of Life magazine.