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Fowl

1877–1941

A shadowy early-20th-century humor writer, remembered mainly for the playful and stylish work The First Book of Eve. Even the name seems to have been a pseudonym, which only adds to the mystery.

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About the author

Little can be confirmed about this author beyond the basic library record: Fowl (1877–1941) is credited with The First Book of Eve, a 1916 comic and pictorial work published by Brentano's in New York and reproduced with permission from The Tatler.

Catalogs for the book describe it as "written and designed by Fowl" and identify the illustrator separately as Anne Harriet "Fish", herself working under a pseudonym. Several records explicitly label Fowl as a pseudonym, but the person behind that name is not clearly identified in the sources I found.

Because so little firm biographical information survives in standard reference sources, this author remains somewhat elusive today. What does stand out is the book's witty, collaborative, magazine-bred style, which places Fowl within the lively world of British illustrated humor in the 1910s.