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John Bowen (born November 5, 1924, Calcutta [now Kolkata], India—died April 18, 2019) was a British playwright and novelist noted for examining the complexity and ambivalence of human motives and behaviour. Bowen was the son of a British business manager working in India.
John Bowen is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature. He joined the Department in 2005 from Keele University, where he was Professor of Modern English Literature.
Apr 18, 2019 · John Griffith Bowen (5 November 1924 – 18 April 2019) was a British playwright and novelist. Early life. John Bowen was born in Calcutta, India, to Ethel (née Cook) and Hugh Bowen; his father was the manager of the Shalimar Print Works in Gobariah. John Bowen's grandfather was an Inspector of Police in Calcutta.
Sep 27, 2021 · John Bowen is a multi genre thriller author who lives in the UK. When not playing video-games, reading, catching up on movies, going to the gym, and enjoying time with his wife and children, he occasionally finds time to write...
Professor Bowen is the author of Other Dickens: Pickwick to Chuzzlewit (Oxford University Press, 2000, 2003) and has edited Dickens's Barnaby Rudge for Penguin; Anthony Trollope’s Barchester Towers (2014) and Phineas Redux (2011) for Oxford World’s Classics; and Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies with Robert L. Patten.
John Bowen has always been an intelligent and didactic novelist. His first novel, The Truth Will Not Help Us , uses a story of English seamen charged with piracy in a Scottish port in 1705 as a metaphor for the political evil of assuming guilt by rumor or association.
Biography. John Bowen was born in India in 1924 and reared by aunts and grandparents in the UK. After an uneventful war, he went to Oxford to read History. He began his writing life as a novelist and was recruited to television drama by the director, Peter Wood, then began writing for the stage.
