[author edward hower - about edward Edward Hower is the author of seven novels and two collections of stories. The author lived over two years in India, part of the time travelling to rural villages to transcribe folk tales for his book, The Pomegranate Princess. He returned many times during the 1980's and 1990's to collect material for articles that appeared in The New York Times, Smithsonian, and other publications. After Hower graduated from Cornell University in 1963, he lived in East Africa for three years, where he taught high school, sang in local nightclubs, and wrote his first novel, The New Life Hotel. Later, he earned a masters degree in Anthropology from the University of California, doing field work among Los Angeles street gangs. Like many writers, he has held a variety of jobs: a salesman, a counselor at girls' reformatory (the subject of his second novel, Wolf Tickets), and a general of the Egyptian army (a non-singing role he performed in the New York City Opera Company production of Handel's Julius Caesar). More recently, he has taught at several American universities and has givenwriting workshops in Tobago, Greece, Sri Lanka, Britain, Nepal, and Key West, Florida. Many of these classes he has co-taught with his wife, the novelist Alison Lurie.]