Bill Bowler

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Bill was born in New York City in 1950. He graduated from Columbia Univ. in 1972 and received a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages & Literatures from the University of Michigan in 1981. At the age of 31, without giving it much thought, he bailed out of academia and went back to New York to live in a rundown tenement, write poetry and prose, chase girls, and pursue the Bohemian life. He became one of the few practicing busboys in New York to hold a doctorate.

After a period of aimless drifting and a series of zigzags, Bill panicked and got a real job in an office. He has worked for the past 18 years at a classical music management agency.

Off-line, Bill is a level 19 pure mage in “The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion” and, on-line, a Special Forces Medic and Expert Marksman in “America’s Army.”

Bill has published a couple of poems and the unfinished Great American Novel is somewhere under a pile of paper in his desk drawer. He loves Philip K. Dick, Stanislaw Lem, H.G. Wells, and the Strugatsky brothers.

Bill remembers when Nixon was president and the world was engulfed in madness. He thinks the 60’s never ended and still can’t decide what he wants to be when he grows up. In the meanwhile, as time flies by and his beard incomprehensibly turns gray, he lives with his beautiful wife, who wishes he’d turn off the computer, and their 13-year old son, who grew 4 inches this year, in a cozy apartment in the middle of the city so nice that they named it twice, New York, New York.