Editing Fanny Howe (section)

==Early life, education and marriage ==
Howe was born in Buffalo, New York. Her father Mark De Wolfe Howe was then teaching at the state university law school. When her father [[Mark De Wolfe Howe]] left to join the fighting in World War II, her mother, Irish playwright [[Mary Manning (writer)|Mary Manning]], took Howe and her older sister [[Susan Howe]] to [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]]. (Their younger sister Helen was born after their father's return from the war.) There the family lived through the children's childhoods.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/fanny-howe |title=Fanny Howe |publisher=The Poetry Foundation |access-date=2011-06-27}}</ref> 

Her father became a colonel and served in Sicily and North Africa. After the war he went to [[Potsdam]] as a legal adviser in the Allies' reorganization of Europe.<ref name="lithub.com">{{cite web|url=http://lithub.com/fanny-howe-on-race-family-and-the-line-between-fiction-and-poetry/|title=Fanny Howe on Race, Family, and the Line Between Fiction and Poetry - Literary Hub|date=November 2016 |access-date=3 November 2016}}</ref> Returning to peacetime, her father continued his work as a lawyer and became a professor at [[Harvard Law School]].

Howe's mother was an actress at the [[Abbey Theatre]] of Dublin for some time, before coming to the United States in 1935. She also wrote several plays to be performed there and at the Gate Theatre.<ref name="lithub.com"/> Her maternal aunt was [[Helen Howe]], a monologuist and novelist. Her sisters are [[Susan Howe]], who also became a notable poet, and Helen Howe. 

Later recalling her early ambitions to be a poet, Fanny Howe attended [[Stanford University]] for three years. She was briefly attracted by the political activism, and communism. In 1961—the year she left Stanford—she married Frederick Delafield. They had no children and divorced two years later.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-3401600343/howe-fanny-quincy.html |title=Fanny (Quincy) Howe |publisher=encyclopedia.com |access-date=2012-06-14}}</ref> 

As a [[Civil rights movement|civil rights]] [[activist]] in the 1970s, she met and married in 1968<ref>https://www.npr.org/2024/09/03/nx-s1-5095921/colored-television-danzy-senna</ref> fellow activist Carl Senna. ([[Danzy Senna]]: "I remember my mother went to the courthouse to get some paperwork for the marriage and in Boston, where interracial couples hadn't been illegal at that time ... [and] the woman said to her, "Wait, I have to go in the back and see if this is legal that you two are getting married."<ref>https://www.npr.org/2024/09/03/nx-s1-5095921/colored-television-danzy-senna</ref>) They also shared the literary world. Of African-American-Mexican descent, he is also a poet and was one of the youngest editors of a notable journal. 

They had three children in four years. Their middle child, [[Danzy Senna]], became a novelist and essayist. She draws from her biracial family and her experience, exploring issues of race and class in the US. Howe and Senna separated when the children were young, and had a bitter divorce.