Joseph Cowley

The author

From the dust jacket of The Chrysanthemum Garden, Simon&Schuster, 1981

From the dust jacket of The Executive Strategist, McGraw-Hill, 1969

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Biography

JOSEPH COWLEY was born on October 9, 1923. He graduated from Columbia University in 1947, interrupting his academic career to serve two and a half years with the Army Air Force during World War II. The last few months of service were spent overseas as a bombardier with the Eighth Air Force, for which he was awarded the Bronze Star. He received his M.A. from Columbia in 1948 and taught English at Cornell University before entering sales. Most of his career was spent writing and editing material on sales and management for The Research Institute of America. Taking early retirement in 1982 to devote himself to fiction, he moved with his wife Ruth to Lebanon, Ohio, to be near the eldest of their four children and the two grandchildren existent at the time. They now have seven grandchildren: Jesse, Noah, Sarah, Samantha, Eliot, Sophia, and Sean, and live on Long Island.

Joseph Cowley is the author of the novels The Chrysanthemum Garden, Home by SevenLandscape With FiguresDust Be My DestinyThe House on Huntington Hill; the plays The Stargazers, Twin Bill, and A Jury of His Peers; two collection of shorter fiction, one called The Night Billy Was Born and Other Love Stories, the other Do You Like It and Other Stories; and, with Robert Weisselberg, The Executive Strategist, An Armchair Guide to Scientific Decision-Making. He has also collected some of his favorite writings in a book called "The Best of Joseph Cowley" as a tribute to his deceased wife, who would never in life have allowed her photo to appear in or on any of his books. His articles have appeared in trade and science journals, and his short stories in Prairie Schooner, New-Story, The Maryland Review, Ohio Short Fiction, and other literary journals and anthologies. He has recently completed a biography of John Adams (it is due out this month, May, 2009), working on a sequel to the adventure novel Dust Be My Destiny, and also writing a futuristic thriller called Don’t Shoot--I’m Not the Enemy. On the back burner are another short novel, and another historical play, this one about Leo Tolstoy and his wife Sophia.

NOTE: Joseph Cowley is listed in Who's Who, International Who's Who of Writers and Authors,Who's Who in the World, Strathmore's Who's Who,Cambridge Blue Book, National Register’s Who’s Who in Executives and Professionals, and other reference volumes. Among the organizations he is or has been associated with are Mensa, Great Books, Authors Guild, and a 12-Step program.

E-Mail: JoeCowleysr@​gmail.com
Website: www.josephcowley.com
Blog: www.thisandthatsomeofitpersonl.blogspot.com
Also: wwwbooksandlife.blogspot.com (note that the "www" are part of the URL)
Phone:1-631-240-9262
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Information also available at:
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www.writester.net/​stories/​?p=121
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and other websites (use Google).

Selected Works

Fiction
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky (Adapted by Joseph Cowley)
Novel abridged and simplified. Meets requirements for level 4 of Ladder series for ESL students.
Non-Fiction
John Adams: Architect of Freedom (1738-1826)
A clear, concise, brief recounting of the life of our second President, the American Revolution, and the founding of this country
The Executive Strategist
An Armchair Guide to Scientific Decision-Making for the busy executive
Anthology
The Best of Joseph Cowley
Once More With Feeling; The Chrysanthemum Garden; Another Great Day; He Says, She says; The Stargazers
Novels
The Chrysanthemum Garden
Two older people find happiness in late-blooming love
Home by Seven
Novel of a “lost weekend” told with brutal honesty
Landscape with Figures
Novel of Great Depression bound to become a classic
Dust Be My Destiny
CIA agent caught in rebellion to overthrow a brutal tyrant
The House on Huntington Hill
A wealthy old man discovers the secret to eternal life
Plays
The Stargazers
Conflict between Kepler and Tycho Brahe for the secrets of the solar system
A Jury of His Peers
A textbook salesman is accused of a horrible crime. Is he guilty? Who is to judge?
Twin Bill: I Love You, I Love You\My Life With Women
Two plays dealing with love that can be produced separately or on same bill
Stories
The Night Billy Was Born and Other Love Stories
Stories about love at all ages, from teenage to nonage
Do You Like It and Other Stories
"Strange" stories, of children playing a deadly game to the weird adventures of a clutch of explorers
Love Stories
Four novellas about love that have been reprinted in The Night Billy Was Born