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==Personal life== Howe was born on June 10, 1937, in [[Boston, Massachusetts]].<ref>[http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/susan-howe "Susan Howe"], Academy of American Poets, Retrieved 24 December 2014.</ref> She grew up in nearby [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]]. Her mother, [[Mary Manning (writer)|Mary Manning]], was an Irish playwright and acted for Dublin's [[Gate Theatre]].<ref>Marjorie Perloff, ''Unoriginal Genius ''</ref> Manning was a close friend of [[Samuel Beckett]], with whom she had a brief affair a year before Susan was born; this led to a rumour that Beckett might be her biological father, although Susan Howe has stated that DNA tests show Beckett was not her father. <ref>https://www.the-tls.co.uk/lives/biography/becketts-children-michael-coffey-book-review-w-j-davies?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1738929421</ref> Her father Mark De Wolfe Howe, was a professor at Harvard Law School and became the official biographer of Supreme Court Justice [[Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.|Oliver Wendell Holmes]]. Her aunt [[Helen Howe]] was a [[Monologist|monologuist]] and [[novelist]].<ref>McLane, Maureen. [http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6189/the-art-of-poetry-no-97-susan-howe "The Art of Poetry No.97 Susan Howe"], ''The Paris Review,'' Retrieved 25 December 2014.</ref> Howe has two younger sisters, [[Fanny Howe]], who is also a poet; and Helen Howe Braider. Howe graduated from the [[School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston|Boston Museum School of Fine Arts]] in 1961.<ref name=Poetry/> Howe married painter [[Harvey Quaytman]] in 1961; they had met at the art school. They separated when their daughter was young. Howe and her daughter lived with [[sculptor]] [[David von Schlegell]] for several years before the couple married. They were together until his death in 1992. The widowed poet married again, to [[Peter Hewitt Hare]], a [[philosopher]] and professor at the [[University at Buffalo, The State University of New York|University of Buffalo]]. He died in January 2008. Howe has two grown children, [[painter]] [[R.H. Quaytman]], and writer [[Mark von Schlegell]]. She lives in [[Guilford, Connecticut]].<ref>Will Montgomery, ''The Poetry of Susan Howe'', New York: Palgrave, 2010</ref>
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