James Cloyd Bowman
James Cloyd Bowman was an American teacher and author primarily of children's books, college text books and journals. Born in Leipsic, Ohio. Bowman grew up in Ohio and attended Ohio Northern University with graduate studies at Harvard University. He taught English at Iowa State College, and then at Northern State Teachers College at Marquette, MI, where he was chair of the English department from 1921-39.
Bowman received a Newbery Honor in 1938 for Pecos Bill: The Greatest Cowboy of All Time about the "legend" of Pecos Bill. In 1958 Pecos Bill won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award.Works
Adult
- Into the Depths, University Press, 1905.
- The Gift of White Roses, 3rd revised edition, Pilgrim Press, 1914.
- Essays for College English, Heath, first series, 1915, second series, 1918. Editor with Louis I. Bredvold.
- The Promise of Country Life, Heath, 1916. As editor.
- An Inland Voyage and Travels with a Donkey, Allyn and Bacon, 1918 and 1922. Editor.
- On the Des Moines, Cornhill, 1921.
- Composition and Selected Essays for Normal Schools and Colleges, Harcourt, 1923. With J. Lawrence Eason.
- Contemporary American Criticism, Henry Holt, 1926. Editor.
Juvenile
- The Knight of the Chinese Dragon, Pfeifer Press, 1913.
- The Adventures of Paul Bunyan, Century, 1927.
- Tales From a Finnish Tupa, translated by Aili Kolehmainen, Whitman, 1936. Compiler with Margery Bianco.
- Pecos Bill: The Greatest Cowboy of All Time, Whitman 1937, reprinted 1972, reprinted 2007
- Mystery Mountain, Whitman, 1940. A collaboration with Bowman's daughter and her playmates.
- Winabojo: Master of Life, Whitman, 1941.
- John Henry: The Rambling Black Ulysses, Whitman, 1942.
- Mike Fink: Snapping Turtle of the O-hi-o-o, Snag of the Mas-sa-sip, Little, Brown, 1957.
- Seven Silly Wise Men, Whitman, 1965. With Margery Bianco.
- Who Was Tricked?, Whitman, 1966. With Margery Bianco.
