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Robert Owen Bowen (May 7, 1920, in Bridgeport, Connecticut – June 9, 2003, in Anchorage, Alaska) was an American novelist and essayist.
Biography
Bowen served in the United States Navy in during World War II and was a prisoner of war in the Philippines. He was discharged as a Weapons Technician (Third Class Petty Officer). After World War II, he earned bachelor's and master's degrees, a Phi Beta Kappa key and a Fulbright scholarship to Wales, where he studied Welsh prosody. Mr. Bowen was an author, professor, editor, writer in residence at Cornell, the University of Washington, and the Iowa Writer's Workshop. In 1963 Mr. Bowen moved to Anchorage and was a professor. He was commander of the Alaska chapter of the American Ex-POWs. In 2002, he received the Alaskan of the Year Governor's Award for a three-year effort in organizing the Veterans Statue project on the Delaney Park Strip.
Works
Novels
- The Weight of the Cross (1951, novel)
- Bamboo (1953, novel)
- Sidestreets (1953, novel)
- Strangers (1956, novel)
- Trapper's Peak (1958, novel)
Essays
- Practical Prose Studies (1956, collection of essays)
- The New Professor (1956, collection of essays)
- The Truth about Communism (1962, collection of essays)
- The College Style Manual (1963, collection of essays)
- Alaskan Dictionary (1966, collection of travel articles)
Other works
- The Beacon Annual (1958, collection of short fiction)
- Mountain Child (1959, play)
Later life
Bowen is buried at Fort Richardson National Cemetery in Fort Richardson, Anchorage Borough, Alaska.
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- 1920 births
- 2003 deaths
- Writers from Bridgeport, Connecticut
- Writers from Anchorage, Alaska
- Military personnel from Bridgeport, Connecticut
- United States Navy sailors
- United States Navy personnel of World War II
- American prisoners of war in World War II
- 20th-century American novelists
- 20th-century American male writers
- American male novelists
- American male essayists
- 20th-century American essayists
- Novelists from Connecticut
- American novelist, 1920s birth stubs