Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe Jr. (August 23, 1864 – December 6, 1960) was an American editor, author, and recipient of the 1925 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
Howe was born in Bristol, Rhode Island, the son of Bishop Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe and Eliza Whitney. In 1886, he graduated from Lehigh University and in 1887 from Harvard University (Master of Arts, 1888).
He served as associate editor of the Youth's Companion from 1888 to 1893 and from 1899 to 1913[1] He also served as assistant editor of the Atlantic Monthly in 1893-1895, and as editor of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin until 1913. He was vice president of the Atlantic Monthly company from 1911 to 1929. As an author, he won the 1925 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for Barrett Wendell and His Letters. He was the editor of Harvard Volunteers in Europe in 1916. He received an honorary Litt. D. from Lehigh in 1916.[2]
In 1899, he married Fanny Huntington Quincy (1870–1933),[3] an essayist and author, who was a sister to Josiah Quincy (1859–1919) The couple had two sons and one daughter: journalist Quincy Howe (1900-1977), author Helen Huntington Howe (1905-1975), and Mark De Wolfe Howe (1906-1967), Harvard law professor and civil rights leader. He lived in Boston, and had a summer home in Cotuit, Massachusetts. He died at the home of his son Mark in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[4]
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:
