Maureen Howard

Maureen Howard is the author on nine novels, three were finalists for the PEN/Faulkner award. Her memoir, Facts of Life, was the winner of the National Books Critic Circle Award. Her most recent work, The Rags of Time, is a novel in a quartet celebrating the four seasons. The recipient of an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.

• Safe As Houses