'Asta Bowen

American young adult writer PearBOT 5 March 2024 'Asta Brown 1955 8 12 Chicago, Illinois St. Olaf College, 1977;Pacific University, 1993 Writer Asta Bowen (born August 12, 1955), sometimes spelled Asta Bowen, is an American young adult writer. She's best known for her novel Wolf: The Journey Home.Schelhaas David February 1994 The Dangerous Safety of Fiction The English Journal National Council of Teachers of English 83 2 51–55 10.2307/821155 821155 Biography Bowen was born in Chicago to a family of Irish descent. She was raised in Orland Park, Illinois.https://writersontherange.org/writer/asta-bowen/ 'Asta Bowen March 23, 2024 writersontherange.org She published her first book, The Huckleberry Book in 1988. Nine years later, her best known work, Wolf: The Journey Home was published.Fiction Book Review: Hungry for Home: A Wolf Ody https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-684-82361-4 Publishers Weekly 16 June 2021 From 1988 to 2001, she published a column in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. She has also written for the Salt Lake Tribune.Bowen Asta Asta Bowen: Looking hate in the eye in Whitefish, Montana https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2020/06/16/asta-bowen-looking-hate/ 16 June 2021 The Salt Lake Tribune 15 June 2020 She now teaches composition in Kalispell, Montana and lives in Somers, Montana. The wolf myth Bowen writes young-adult fiction, with a focus on the myth of the wolf. In Wolf: The Journey Home, there is a scene where a wolf body allows to find the killer has been compared by American academic and professor S. K. Robisch to a real poaching in the Yellowstone Park, against one male of the Druids wolf pack, named from Druid Peak, the first reintroduced in this park in 1996, where the killer has been apprehended because he kept the head as a trophy.S. K. Robisch Wolves and the Wolf Myth in American Literature University of Nevada Press Reno, Nevada 429685308 2009 Robisch credits Bowen for her correct portrayal of the role of the den location, to raise the new litter. There is little anthropomorphism in this novel except for giving the wolves names like Marth or Oldtooth. British historian Karen Jones, specialized in the history of the American West, environmental history and Animal Studies, stresses upon the importance of such works in the environmental values transmission. She notes works like 'Asta Bowen "contain descriptions of intelligent canine protagonists that countered the images of bestial excess in traditional Euro-American wolf tales.".Karen Jones Writing the Wolf: Canine Tales and North American Environmental-Literary Tradition Environment and History 17 2 May 2011 201–228 White Horse Press 10.3197/096734011X12997574042964 Jones also notes, more strongly than Robisch the "humanistic traits" of the wolves: in Wolf: The Journey Home, she sees Marta as an "eco-feminist icon, a strong female character" and as "totem for positive gender identity". She compares the myth to the Turner's Frontier Thesis: "Bowen's fictionalised rendition of lupine restoration involved copious quantities of pain, struggle, and death. This was a damming verdict on Turnerian triumphalism. Here the wolf story showed a West not won but lost. In Bowen's work, the wolf emerged as a potent signifier of frontier guilt, an expression that also proved common in commentary on the wolf reintroduction programme in Yellowstone in the mid-1990s." Work reception Her first novel, Wolf: The Journey Home, is well received and was nominated for the 2006 Teens' Top Ten award by the American Library Association.http://www.dailyinterlake.com/community/lifestyle/article_36d7511d-0c8b-5528-b9fb-1bd025589d1f.html https://archive.today/20130120041552/http://www.dailyinterlake.com/community/lifestyle/article_36d7511d-0c8b-5528-b9fb-1bd025589d1f.html dead January 20, 2013 Making the teen scene – in books Nancy Kimball October 7, 2006 The Daily Inter Lake April 29, 2010 http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/teenreading/teenstopten/Nominations2006TTT.pdf Nominations for the 2006 Teens' Top Ten Books American Library Association https://web.archive.org/web/20060602134132/http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/teenreading/teenstopten/Nominations2006TTT.pdf 2006 2006-06-02 dead 2014-08-28 Bibliography The Huckleberry Book (1988) Wolf: The Journey Home (1997) References External links Official site https://web.archive.org/web/20140517002104/http://astabowen.com/ 2014-05-17 Category:20th-century American novelists Category:20th-century births Category:1955 births Category:American writers of young adult novels Category:People from Orland Park, Illinois Category:People from Flathead County, Montana Category:Living people Category:20th-century American women novelists Category:American women columnists Category:American women writers of young adult literature Category:Novelists from Chicago Category:21st-century American women