Bowen, Robert O.
BOWEN, Robert O.
BOWEN, Robert O. American, b. 1920. Genres: Novels, Novellas/Short stories, Writing/Journalism, Poetry. Career: Novelist. Instructor, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1953-55; Visiting Lecturer, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1955-56; Assistant Professor of English, Montana State University, Missoula, 1956-58, and University of Washington, Seattle, 1958-60; Associate Professor of English, University of Santa Clara, California, 1960-61, University of Dallas, Texas, 1961-63, and Alaska Methodist University, Anchorage, 1963-65; Ed., Dallas Review, Texas, 1962-63, Alaska Review, Anchorage, 1963-65, and Fur Rendezvous Magazine, Anchorage, 1964; Bowen Assoc., Publisher, proprietor. Publications: The Weight of the Cross, 1951; Bamboo, 1953; Sidestreet, 1954; (ed.) Practical Prose Studies: A Critical Anthology of Contemporary American Prose Readings for the College Freshman, 1956; (ed.) The New Professors, 1960; The Christmas Child (libretto), 1960; The Truth about Communism, 1962; Marlow the Master and Other Stories, 1963; College Style Manual, 1963; (ed. with R.A. Charles) Alaska Literary Directory, 1964; An Alaskan Dictionary, 1965; Reading Village Sign and Poems Like That, 1981; The Yupik Boy Who Became a True Man, 1990. Died 2003.