'Asta Bowen

Asta Bowen (born August 12, 1955), sometimes spelled Asta Bowen, is an American young adult writer. She's best known for her novel Wolf: The Journey Home.

Biography Bowen was born in Chicago to a family of Irish descent. She was raised in Orland Park, Illinois. She published her first book, The Huckleberry Book in 1988. Nine years later, her best known work, Wolf: The Journey Home was published.

From 1988 to 2001, she published a column in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. She has also written for the Salt Lake Tribune. She now teaches composition in Kalispell, Montana and lives in Somers, Montana.

The wolf myth Bowen writes young-adult fiction, with a focus on the myth of the wolf. In Wolf: The Journey Home, there is a scene where a wolf body allows to find the killer has been compared by American academic and professor S. K. Robisch to a real poaching in the Yellowstone Park, against one male of the Druids wolf pack, named from Druid Peak, the first reintroduced in this park in 1996, where the killer has been apprehended because he kept the head as a trophy. Robisch credits Bowen for her correct portrayal of the role of the den location, to raise the new litter. There is little anthropomorphism in this novel except for giving the wolves names like Marth or Oldtooth.

Jones also notes, more strongly than Robisch the "humanistic traits" of the wolves: in Wolf: The Journey Home, she sees Marta as an "eco-feminist icon, a strong female character" and as "totem for positive gender identity".