William Bowen

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, on May 15, 1877, he was an American author and journalist who wrote under the name William Bowen. Reference sources identify him as William Alvin Bowen, and note that he died on September 18, 1937.

Alongside his fiction, he worked in newspapers and served as a drama and music critic for the Baltimore Sun. His writing ranged from adventure and boys' fiction to fantasy, with The Enchanted Forest often singled out among his better-known books.

He is also associated with the Danny Orlis stories, part of the kind of energetic, moral adventure fiction that reached young readers in the early twentieth century. Though not widely famous today, his career shows the close connection between journalism and popular storytelling in his era.