Elizabeth Bowen was born in 1899 in Dublin and raised in England. Her first book, a collection of short stories titled Encounter, was published in 1923. Thereafter she produced plays, reviews, eleven novels, nine collections of short stories, and eleven volumes of nonfiction. She worked as a reporter for the British Ministry of Information during the Second World War, and by night she was an air raid warden. Awards for her work included the CBE (Companion of the British Empire). Bowen died in 1973 and is buried with her husband, Alan Cameron, close to the gates of the Bowen family land, Bowen’s Court, in County Cork, Ireland.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Daffodils, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2015–2016
- The House in Paris, a review or criticism, in Fall 2013
- Notes on Writing a Novel, an essay, in Fall 2006