John (Novelist) Bowling

Publicly available records found during this search identify John Bowling as the author of The Last of the Vikings. The book is listed by Project Gutenberg and booksellers under the form "John (Novelist) Bowling," which suggests that very little biographical information about the author has been preserved.

Because reliable sources are so limited, it is safest to describe Bowling as an obscure novelist known chiefly through this surviving work. The Last of the Vikings is presented as historical fiction centered on the last phase of Viking influence in England, giving modern readers a glimpse of the kind of adventure storytelling associated with earlier popular fiction.

No clearly verified portrait image or well-sourced personal biography was found in the materials available during this search, so many details about Bowling's life remain uncertain.