Maureen Howard has written ten novels, three of which—Grace Abounding (Little, Brown), Expensive Habits (Summit Books), and Natural History (Norton)—were nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Her memoir, Facts of Life (Little, Brown), won the 1978 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, and in 1997, she received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.