When her father Mark De Wolfe Howe left to join the fighting in World War II , Howe and her mother , the Irish playwright Mary Manning , moved to Cambridge , Massachusetts where she grew up .
Howe was born in Buffalo , New York .
When Howe 's father Mark De Wolfe Howe left to join the fighting in World War II Howe Howe and her mother , the Irish playwright Mary Manning , moved to Cambridge , Massachusetts where she grew up .
Howe was born in Buffalo , New York .