Lisa N. Howorth is an American writer and business owner. She published her first work of fiction, Flying Shoes, at age 63. She and her husband Richard Howorth own Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi, which they opened in 1979. The bookstore was named Book Store of the Year in 2013 by Publishers Weekly. Lisa Howorth previously worked as a reference librarian and art historian at the University of Mississippi where she earned a master’s degree in art history. Flying Shoes is rooted in a very personal subject. In 1966 Lisa Howorth’s stepbrother was attacked and killed near the family’s home in Bethesda, Maryland. The murder made the front page of The Washington Post and the case has never been solved. Howorth was awarded the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts in 1996 and a MacDowell Fellowship in 2007. She has written for Garden and Gun magazine and the Oxford American.
Lisa Howorth
Studios
Heyward
Lisa Howorth worked in the Heyward studio.
The Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of the men’s dormitory (The Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Foundation, Lodge Annex was…