Croswell Bowen: A Writer's Life, A Daughter's Portrait - Hardcover

Connor Bowen, Betsy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1612345581 ISBN 13: 9781612345581

Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc., 2015

Synopsis

A daughter's quest to find her father through his work at the intersections of journalism, democracy, and liberalism. Bowen believed telling the right stories with the right words could create a better world. While advancing causes he believed in and lending a voice to the less fortunate, he struggled to provide for his family. Although he made mistakes, his daughter celebrates his ability, even in failure, to maintain bold moral integrity.

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Review:

"Croswell Bowen was a man full of contradictions, and life did not always deal him a fair hand. Difficult he sometimes may have been, but you cannot take away his talent as a writer and reporter or fault his generosity of spirit. He deserves not to be forgotten, and thanks to this loving and eloquent portrait by his oldest daughter, he won't be."--Robert Cowley, author and founding editor of MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History

-- (05/14/2014)

"Walking the tricky line between biography and memoir with aplomb, Betsy Connor Bowen paints a portrait of her New Deal liberal photo-reporter father that shows him in his literary glory but with his flaws as well--which makes him all the more intriguing. Fascinating and heart-breaking."--Heath Lee, author of Winnie Davis: Daughter of the Lost Cause

-- (05/14/2014)

"This book is an homage to all those who, like Croswell Bowen, dare to face the blank page, who live from one story to the next in order to understand and articulate the world they know--and, ideally, script a better one. An engrossing must-read for aspiring and veteran journalists alike."--Stacey Chase, freelance writer for the Boston Globe and Globe Magazine, the Christian Science Monitor, and Newsweek
-- (05/27/2014)

About the Author:

Betsy Connor Bowen has worked as a community organizer, elementary school teacher, college instructor and assistant professor, securities analyst, journalist, and filmmaker. She is the author of a young adult novella, Spring Bear, and the editor of her father's World War II memoir, Back from Tobruk (Potomac Books, 2012).

About this edition

• Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1612345581
• ISBN 13: 9781612345581
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248