Authors and Illustrators Database

James Cloyd Bowman

Born: 01/18/1880  Leipsic, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent
Died: 09/27/1961
Parents: Martin Van Buren and Anne Bowman
Children: Jeanne

Writings

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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Skills:
Author
Poet
Other - Folklorist

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Bachelor of Arts (B. A. ) Bowling Green University Bowling Green, OH 1958

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Chairman of English Department Northern State Teachers College Marquette 1921-1939
Professor Iowa State College Ames 1910-1921

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