What's Up with This Tilting Liberal?

"What's a liberal?" I asked.  "A person who gives back," snapped my father. He was an FDR disciple and fire-breathing crusading journalist, defender of the common man and he could have given a longer answer. But no problem. It was 1966; I was 22; I'd find out for myself.  Almost a half century later, his world is long gone. But it's a question I've been pondering, of late.

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Croswell Bowen
(1905-1971)

TRUTH TELLER (forthcoming) takes you through the great events of the 20th Century as Bowen follows his writer's calling to engage with the action and passion of his time, all the while struggling with fortune and misfortune as a husband and father.

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Back From Tobruk

He was a young photojournalist eager to get his teeth into a great assignment -- until Rommel's bombs began to drop. War was the crucible that turned Croswell Bowen into a storyteller.

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Spring Bear

My gritty backwoods novella, about a young woman doing what she must do to protect her unborn child. Maine Literary Award winner, 2009.

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