Gwendolyn Bowers is an American author, mostly of juvenile historical fiction.

Born in Lawrence

Lawrence

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, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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, she is a graduate of the Boston University

Boston University

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 School of Education, studying creative writing, drama and the fine arts there. She taught in the English department of the Rhode Island School of Design

Rhode Island School of Design

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 for fourteen years. She married George Ellery Washburn, professor emeritus of French at Boston University, and they make their home in Cambridge

Cambridge

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, Massachusetts.

Books

• The Adventures of Philippe: A story of old Kebec (1949)Lippmann, Helen K. (22 May 1949). Canadian Pioneers, The New York Times
  The New York Times
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  (book review)
• At the Sign of the Globe (H.Z. Walck, 1966)
• Brother to Galahad (H.Z. Walck, 1963)
• A date with Dave (1959)
• Desert Brew (Madison Square, 1925)
• Journey for Jemima (H.Z. Walck)
• The Lost Dragon of Wessex (Oxford University Press, 1957)
• The Wishing Book Doll (Morrow, 1957)