Raised in Johnson City, Tennessee, John Bowers
continues to have strong emotional ties
to his hometown and state although he has lived
in New York City since 1962. Bitten by the
writing bug early on, he had his first story published
in the “little” magazine, Matrix,
when he
was 14. (Regretfully, there was a dry spell of
over a decade before his next one was accepted.)
Shortly after graduating from the University of
Tennessee, in 1951 he joined an oddball
writing colony in Marshall, Illinois where James
Jones of From Here to Eternity was ensconced.
The experience was searing but served as fodder
for his first published book, the critically
acclaimed, The Colony, in 1971. In New York, he
has had six other books and over 200 magazine
articles, essays, and stories published. He has
been a magazine editor and has helped start
a few magazines. For over two decades he has been
a Professor in the Writing Program at Columbia.
His play, The Remembrance of Things Present, had
two productions Off Broadway. He recently married
Leslie Armstrong, an architect, and has two sons
by a previous marriage.
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