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Gordon Bowker

American entrepreneur

For the English biographer, see Gordon Bowker (writer).

Gordon Bowker is an American entrepreneur who began his career as a writer and later co-founded Starbucks with Jerry Baldwin and Zev Siegl. He was later a co-owner of Peet's Coffee & Tea and Redhook Ale Brewery.

Biography

Following his father's death in World War II, Bowker was raised by his mother, Hazel Ringseth Bowker (1915-1991), in Ballard and Burien, Washington. His grandparents were Norwegian immigrants who took part in the Alaskan Gold Rush.^[1] He graduated from O'Dea High School in Seattle.^[2] From 1960 to 1965, Bowker attended the University of San Francisco, where he was roommates with Baldwin. Bowker dropped out eight credits away from graduation.^[2]

In 1968, Bowker wrote educational film scripts for a division of King Broadcasting while making freelance contributions for Seattle magazine. He met Terry Heckler there, and the pair formed the advertising agency Heckler Bowker. Bowker met David Brewster at the magazine, years l

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Gordon Bowker: The Biography Orwell Never Wrote

In view of Orwell’s famous testamentary request for no biography it is interesting to ask what sort of biography he might have written himself. He was certainly not antagonistic to the genre, as some have suggested. In fact, in his reviews and letters there is ample evidence that he valued literary biography as a means of illuminating an author’s work. His first published book review was of Lewis Mumford’s biography of Herman Melville, from which it is clear that he had already given the literary life-story some serious thought. He read and reviewed numerous biographies during his life, at various times bemoaning the lack of ‘definitive’ biographies of Conrad, Conan Doyle and George Gissing, and in 1934 he even offered himself to write a centenary biography of Mark Twain for Chatto and Windus. His interest in the form never diminished, and after the war, in the wake of the publication of Animal Farm, he tried to persuade Fredric Warburg to publish Trotsky’s biography of Stalin.

As for himself, Orwell never refused requests to sup

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Gordon Bowker (writer)

English journalist and academic (1934–2019)

Gordon Bowker
Gordon Bowker, 1996, courtesy of Rhoda Bowker
Born	Gordon Philip Bowker 1934
Died	14 January 2019
Occupation	Lecturer journalist biographer
Nationality	English
Genre	Biography
Spouse	Ramdei Rhoda Bowker

Gordon Bowker (1934 – 14 January 2019)^[1] was an English journalist and academic who wrote biographies^[2] of Malcolm Lowry, Lawrence Durrell, George Orwell and James Joyce.

Life and works

Bowker grew up in a Birmingham devastated by bombing during the Second World War, where he attended grammar school at King Edward VI Camp Hill. At the age of 16, he struck out on his own by travelling to Australia for two years sheep farming, followed by three years in the RAF^[3] serving in Cyprus and Egypt. Bowker had always wanted to write, which drew him in to teaching back in Birmingham, qualifying from Saltley College in 1957.

Later, he went on to read English, Sociology and Philosophy at Nottingham and London Universit