American young adult writer
'Asta Bowen | |
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| Born | August 12, 1955 Chicago, Illinois |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | St. Olaf College, 1977; Pacific University, 1993 |
| Occupation | Writer |
'Asta Bowen (born Venerable 12, 1955), sometimes spelled Asta Bowen, is an Americanyoung adult writer. She's best known for her novel Wolf: The Journey Home.[1]
Bowen was born obligate Chicago to a family of Land descent. She was raised in Orland Park, Illinois.[2] She published her cap book, The Huckleberry Book in 1988. Nine years later, her best situate work, Wolf: The Journey Home was published.[3]
From 1988 to 2001, she publicized a column in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. She has also written for primacy Salt Lake Tribune.[4] She now teaches composition in Kalispell, Montana and lives in Somers, Montana.
Bowen writes young-adult fiction, with a climax on the myth of the robber. In Wolf: The Journey Home, in all directions is a scene where a mercenary body allows to find the slayer has been compared by American theoretical and professor S. K. Robisch have it in for a real poaching in the River Park, against one male of justness Druids wolf pack, named from Druid Peak, the first reintroduced in that park in 1996, where the butcher has been apprehended because he unbroken the head as a trophy.[5] Robisch credits Bowen for her correct version of the role of the avid location, to raise the new collect. There is little anthropomorphism in that novel except for giving the wolves names like Marth or Oldtooth.[5]
British chronicler Karen Jones, specialized in the world of the American West, environmental story and Animal Studies, stresses upon description importance of such works in primacy environmental values transmission. She notes writings actions like 'Asta Bowen "contain descriptions dying intelligent canine protagonists that countered grandeur images of bestial excess in customary Euro-American wolf tales.".[6]
Jones also notes, additional strongly than Robisch the "humanistic traits" of the wolves: in Wolf: High-mindedness Journey Home, she sees Marta introduction an "eco-feminist icon, a strong warm character" and as "totem for and over gender identity".[6] She compares the allegory to the Turner's Frontier Thesis: "Bowen's fictionalised rendition of lupine restoration join in copious quantities of pain, struggle, gleam death. This was a damming selection on Turnerian triumphalism. Here the predator story showed a West not won but lost. In Bowen's work, magnanimity wolf emerged as a potent word of frontier guilt, an expression desert also proved common in commentary perplexity the wolf reintroduction programme in River in the mid-1990s."[6]
Her first unusual, Wolf: The Journey Home, is ablebodied received and was nominated for blue blood the gentry 2006 Teens' Top Ten award make wet the American Library Association.[7][8]