Maureen Howard, a writer acclaimed for the mordant humour and refined, shimmering prose that often examined the lives of self-critical women seeking to find their place in the world, has died aged 91.
Howard published 10 works of fiction and a prize-winning autobiography during a writing career that began in the early 1960s. The settings of her books ranged from Italy to New York to her hometown of Bridgeport, Connecticut, but all of them shared a graceful writing style and a clear-eyed, unsentimental view of her characters.
