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  1. May 2, 2019 · John Bowen, who has died aged 94, began as an advertising copywriter before making his name as an intelligent and didactic novelist in the 1950s and 1960s; he then won acclaim as a playwright...

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  2. Oct 13, 2020 · Prolific gay screenwriter John Bowen, whose best known Play for Today is the folk horror classic Robin Redbreast (1970), contributed a subtle dose of queerness to the strand with A Photograph (1977) – now available on Blu-ray for the first time.

  3. Writing career. Advertising and early theatre work. Bowen returned to Britain in 1953, moved to London and spent three years as an assistant editor on The Sketch magazine.

  4. The final two stories were based on original screenplays, one by Clive Exton, who was an experienced television screenwriter, and the other by John Bowen, who was primarily known as a novelist and playwright, but also had extensive television experience, including adapting The Treasure of Abbot Thomas earlier in the series.

  5. John Bowen (born November 5, 1924, Calcutta [now Kolkata], India—died April 18, 2019) was a British playwright and novelist noted for examining the complexity and ambivalence of human motives and behaviour. Bowen was the son of a British business manager working in India.

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  6. John Bowen schreef After the rain (Na de regens) in 1958. Een sciencefictionroman én klimaatroman avant la lettre. Stylistisch niet sterk genoeg om literatuur genoemd te worden volgens sommigen.

  7. May 25, 2016 · John Bowen is a Professor of 19th century literature at the University of York in the UK. His main research area is 19th-century fiction, in particular the work of Charles Dickens, but...