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11 Facts About Helen Howe

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Helen Howe was an American novelist, biographer and monologist.

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Helen Huntington Howe was born to Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe and Fanny Huntington Howe on January 11,1905.

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Helen Howe's father was an author and biographer, and her mother was known as an essayist and author.

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Helen Howe's mother was from a long line of Quincys in Boston, stretching back through her great-great-great-grandfather Josiah Quincy Jr.

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Helen Howe attended the Theatre Guild School in New York.

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Helen Howe had a skill in mimicry and discovered she enjoyed writing her own character sketches to perform.

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Helen Howe had a career as a monologist for over fifteen years, with shows across America.

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8.

Helen Howe wrote books exploring the kinds of characters she portrayed in her sketches.

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Helen Howe began the second half of her career more as a novelist.

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Helen Howe married Reginald Allen, who had worked as a curator of the Gilbert and Sullivan Collection in the Pierpont Morgan Library.

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Helen Howe's service was at the Cathedral Church of St John the Divine and her grave is in Mount Wollaston Cemetery, Quincy, Massachusetts.