A Salute
I wish to congratulate Peter Bowen on the occasion of his birthday. He has had some harrowing health troubles and has gotten past them, and has a bright future.
His first novel, Yellowstone Kelly, was successful and became the basis for a series. (I had worked for the small Midwestern company that published him, but left before Bowen's novel was published.) Later he developed a second series featuring an investigator named Gabriel Du Pre, a Metis from Montana, set in present times but nowhere identifiable. These stories are marvelously comic, culturally rich, and a delight to read. He took frontier fiction and detective fiction and turned them on their head, which is why he has an enthusiastic body of readers. Legend has it that he creates these novels in two weeks or so on an old Royal typewriter.
His roots are in journalism. He was a columnist for Forbes before he expanded into the world of fiction. He has contributed to western fiction, and I hope he will continue to do so for many years to come.
His first novel, Yellowstone Kelly, was successful and became the basis for a series. (I had worked for the small Midwestern company that published him, but left before Bowen's novel was published.) Later he developed a second series featuring an investigator named Gabriel Du Pre, a Metis from Montana, set in present times but nowhere identifiable. These stories are marvelously comic, culturally rich, and a delight to read. He took frontier fiction and detective fiction and turned them on their head, which is why he has an enthusiastic body of readers. Legend has it that he creates these novels in two weeks or so on an old Royal typewriter.
His roots are in journalism. He was a columnist for Forbes before he expanded into the world of fiction. He has contributed to western fiction, and I hope he will continue to do so for many years to come.
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