Born: 01/18/1880   Leipsic , OH
Died: 09/27/1961
Parents: Martin Van Buren and Anne Bowman
Children: Jeanne

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	Who Was Tricked? - Taken from the authors' collection of stories: Tales from a Finnish tupa.	Fiction	Children	Chicago : Albert Whitman	1966
	Seven Silly Wise Men - Taken from the author's longer book, Tales from a Finnish tupa. Published after his death.	Fiction	Children	Chicago : Whitman	1964
	Mike Fink, snapping turtle of the O-hi-o-o, snag of the Massassip	Fiction , Folklore	Children	Boston : Little, Brown	1957
	John Henry, the rambling black Ulysses	Folklore	Adult , Children , Teen	Chicago, Ill., A. Whitman & company	1942
	Winabojo: Master of Life - Junior Literary Guild Selection	Folklore	Children	Chicago, Ill. : A. Whitman & company	1941
	Mystery mountain	Fiction	Children	Chicago : A. Whitman & co	1940
	Pecos Bill: The Greatest Cowboy of All Time - Junior Literary Guild Selection (Publication Years: 1937, 1972) received a Newbery Honor in 1938	Fiction , Folklore	Children	Chicago : A. Whitman	1937
	Tales From a Finnish Tupa - With Margery Bianco, Junior Literary Guild Selection	Fiction , Folklore	Children	New York : Junior Literary Guild : Albert Whitman	1936
	The Adventures of Paul Bunyan	Fiction , Folklore	Adult , Children , Teen	New York, London, Century [c1927]	1927
	Contemporary American Criticism	Non Fiction	Adult	New York : H. Holt and Company,	1926
	Composition and selected essays, for normal schools and colleges	Non Fiction	Adult	New York, Harcourt, Brace	1923
	On the Des Moines	Poetry	Adult	Boston : The Cornhill company	1921
	The promise of country life; descriptions, narrations without plot, short stories - Editor	Fiction , Non Fiction , Poetry , Short Stories	Adult	Boston, New York [etc.] D.C. Heath & co.	1916
	Essays for College English -  selected and ed. by James Cloyd Bowman, A. M., Louis I. Bredvold, A. M., L. B. Greenfield, PH. M., Bruce Weirick, A. M. ...	Non Fiction	Adult , Teen	Boston ; New York : D. C. Heath & co	1915 -1918
	The Knight of the Chinese Dragon	Fiction	Children	Columbus, Ohio, The Pfeifer press	1913
	Into the Depths, (a story of protecting sympathy) together with sixteen miscellaneous poems	Fiction , Poetry	Adult	Valparaiso University Press	1905

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