Aubrey Howard Bowser

Aubrey Howard Bowser (April 4, 1886 – 1980) was an American writer, literary critic, and educator. He reviewed books for the New York Amsterdam News. His writings include a serialized novel, The Man Who Would Be White, which was made into the race film The Call of His People. He founded and edited literary magazine The Rainbow from 1919 to 1920. One of his pen names was Jane La Mott. He was the son-in-law of publisher and civil rights leader Timothy Thomas Fortune. He came from a family of Pennsylvanians born in Montgomery County going back five generations. Later in life, he studied for a master's degree and completed a teaching qualification in New York City in 1943. In December 1907, he started writing for The New York Age, the African American newspaper founded by T. Thomas Fortune. He received his license to teach in New York City high schools in 1943.

He died in 1980. The manuscript for his unpublished novel Black Pilgrim: A Novel of Harlem's Early Life is part of the Aubrey Howard Bowser papers donated by his daughter Elizabeth Bowser to the New York Public Library.