- Was nominated for Broadway's 1987 Tony Award as author of Best Play nominee "Coastal Disturbances."
- In 2015 she received PEN's Master American Playwright award.
- Nominated for the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play "Painting Churches" and the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play "Pride's Crossing".
- Her uncle, Mark DeWolfe Howe taught constitutional law at Harvard Law School and was Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s law clerk and biographer.
- The Marx Brothers movies influenced her play-writing.
- Received a Rockefeller Grant, two N.E.A. Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, the Sidney Kingsley Award, two honorary degrees, the William Inge Award for Distinguished Achievement in the American Theatre, a Lilly Award for Lifetime Achievement.
- Subject of the book Howe in an Hour edited by Judith Barlow.
- Has a son Eben and a daughter Dara.
- Her last collection of short one-act plays, "Where Women Go", was published in 2023.
- Husband, historian Norman Levy, taught American History at the University at Albany from 1967 to 1973.
- Won an Obie award for "Painting Churches".
- Attended Sarah Lawrence College (graduating in 1959), Teacher's College at Columbia University and Chicago Teachers College and studied philosophy at Sorbonne University in Paris.
- Her papers are held by the Harvard Theatre Collection at Houghton Library.
- Celebrated playwright whose works included the oft-staged "Painting Churches", "Coastal Disturbances", "Pride's Crossing", "The Nest", "Birth and After Birth", "Museum", "The Art Of Dining" and "Approaching Zanzibar".
- Her aunt Helen Howe was a successful monologist and novelist.
- Two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist.
- In 2012 she received the 3rd Annual Lilly Award Lifetime Achievement Award. The Lilly Awards were created to "recognize the extraordinary contributions made by women to the American Theater.".
- Her grandfather, Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, published over 50 books and won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1925.
- Was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame for 2017.
- Served on the council of the Dramatists Guild since 1990.
- Her father Quincy Howe wrote and broadcast the evening news on CBS Radio from 1942 to 1947, and then on ABC television. He was the author of the three-volume history, A World History of Our Own Times.
- Taught at New York University, Columbia University, Carnegie Mellon and UCLA before becoming Visiting Professor at Hunter College in 1990, then going on to launch the Rita and Burton Goldberg MFA in Playwriting in 2010 as Playwright-in-Residence.
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