Bob Nowlan
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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Writer and Retired Professor |
| Location | New Haven, Connecticut, United States |
| Introduction | My publications include two dozen books on biography, history, mathematics, and reference. The most recent, Born This Day, is the second and expanded edition of a 1996 work of the same title, published by McFarland & Co. A long standing passion is composing sketches of the character, humor and eccentricity of prominent people through the centuries. These have been presented in various venues and many are included in my publications. My avocation of some 50 years has been the study of history, politics, and presidents. My Ph.D is from the University of Notre Dame and my career as an educator, teaching mathematics, history and story telling spans more than forty-five years, the last thirty-three as a Professor and Vice-President for Academic Affairs at Southern Connecticut State University. |
| Interests | History, politics, mathematics, movies, golf, books, music, Black labs, good stories |
| Favorite movies | Casablanca, Citizen Kane, The Band Wagon, Singing in the Rain, To Kill a Mockingbird, It's a Wonderful Life, Arsenic and Old Lace, Harvey, North by Northwest, A Night at the Opera, The Heiress, The Adventures of Robin Hood, East of Eden, All About Eve, Brief Encounter, Witness for the Prosecution, Some Like It Hot, Double Indemnity, The Big Clock, Cape Fear (1962), The Hustler, The Bishop's Wife, Meet in St. Louis, A Little Romance, My Favorite Year, The Godfather I & II, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, The Uninvited, Atlantic City, Anatomy of a Murder, Being There, Great Expectations (1946), A Room With a View, On the Waterfront, A Place in the Sun, Woman of the Year, Body Heat, We're No Angels, Strangers on a Train, Fort Apache, Johnny Belinda, and King's Row to name but a few of the older films. I am also fond of many more recent movies. |
| Favorite music | Classical, Big Bands, Folk, Jazz,Celtic, New Wave, Pop music before hard rock |
| Favorite books | The Idiot, Anatomy of a Murder, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Guns of August, All kinds of biographies and histories, books on movies and mathematics,books of quotations |