Lynne Bowen (born August 22, 1940 in Indian Head, Saskatchewan)[1] is a Canadian non-fiction writer, historian, professor, and journalist, best known for her popular historical books about Vancouver Island and British Columbia.
Over the years, Bowen has won awards such as the Eaton's British Columbia Book Award (1983), the Lieutenant Governor's Medal for Writing British Columbia History (1987), and the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize (1993).
in Public Health Nursing in 1963, before moving to British Columbia in 1972 and raising three children.
The success of these early works garnered Bowen several major literary awards and cultural grants.
Bowen continues to write in the popular history genre, and to date has written seven books, several magazine articles, and penned a monthly newspaper column entitled "Those Island People" in Victoria's Times Colonist (2003–2005), inspired by her years of collecting and chronicling stories and interviews with people on Vancouver Island.