Vincent H. (Vincent Herbert) Gowen

Born in 1893, Vincent Herbert Gowen became widely known on Bainbridge Island, Washington, as Father Vincent Gowen, a respected educator and vicar of St. Barnabas Church. The Bainbridge Public Library notes that he was remembered for clear, thoughtful sermons, and that his writing ranged beyond ministry into memoir and Christian spirituality.

His published work also drew heavily on his years in Asia. Records for Sunrise to Sunrise describe it as the story of one man's journey through China, the Philippines, and World War II internment, while Village by the Yangtze reflects his long view of imperial and communist China through the life of a mission school. Project Gutenberg also lists his novel Sun and Moon.

Gowen died in 1984. Taken together, the surviving records present him as an author whose books grew out of lived experience: faith, teaching, cross-cultural life, and the pressures of war and political change.