Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe (writer)

Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe Jr. (August 23, 1864 – December 6, 1960) was an American editor, author, and the recipient of the 1925 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.

As an author, he won the 1925 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for Barrett Wendell and His Letters.

The couple had two sons and one daughter: journalist Quincy Howe (1900-1977), author Helen Huntington Howe (1905-1975), and Mark DeWolfe Howe (1906-1967), Harvard law professor, civil rights activist, and biographer of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.[4] He lived in Boston, and had a summer home in Cotuit, Massachusetts.

He died at the home of his son Mark in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

[5] 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:

Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe (1864-1960)