James Cloyd Bowman

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James Cloyd Bowman (January 18, 1880 – September 27, 1961) was an American teacher and writer primarily of children's books, college text books and journals. Born in Leipsic, Ohio, he grew up in Ohio and attended Ohio Northern University (B.S. 1905) with graduate studies at Harvard University (A.M. 1910). He taught English at Iowa State College (now Iowa State University of Science and Technology), and then at Northern State Teachers College (now Northern Michigan University) at Marquette, MI, where he was chair of the English department from 1921 to 1939. Bowman received a Newbery Honor in 1938 for Pecos Bill: The Greatest Cowboy of All Time about the "legend" of Pecos Bill. In 1958, Pecos Bill won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award.

Career

1. 1880
   Born
2. 1961
   Passed away

Trivia

• •Citizenship: United States
• •Known as: writer, children's writer