William Bowen

William Bowen was an American writer of children's fantasy in the early twentieth century. His novel The Old Tobacco Shop, published in 1921 and subtitled A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure, follows a boy named Freddie from an ordinary errand into a world of marvels, and was named one of the first Newbery Honor books in 1922. He followed it with another fantasy for children, Merrimeg.