Bruce E. Mowday is an author who lives in

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. He specializes in books about local history, business, sports, and true crime. He is active with the

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Professional life

Mowday began working as a sportswriter for the ''Coatesville Record'' while still in high school. He continued his journalism career at the ''

Daily Local News The ''Daily Local News'' is an American daily newspaper based in Chester County, Pennsylvania, also offering limited coverage of neighboring Lancaster and Delaware counties. It covers local and national news, sports, culture, and entertainment. ...

'' in

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, working as a courthouse reporter and rising to become managing editor. He also worked at the ''St. Louis Sun''. While at the ''Daily Local'', he covered the trials that form the basis of his book ''Jailing the Johnston Gang''; the book was later cited by the Johnston brothers in an unsuccessful appeal for a new trial. Mowday left journalism in 1997 to start the Mowday Group, a media relations and consulting company. His clients include local political groups and candidates, businesses, nonprofits, and artists. He also is a speaker on historical topics and actively markets his books. Mowday co-founded the Brandywine Valley Writers Group in 2004 with writers Therese Boyd and Carla Westerman. He has been a guest speaker on the subject of writing and publishing, for both that group and the Main Line Writers Group in

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. Mowday has appeared on

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, Discovery ID, ReelZ, Pennsylvania Cable Network, and local Philadelphia television stations in connection with his books.

Personal life

Mowday lives in

Downingtown, Pennsylvania Downingtown is a borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, west of Philadelphia. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 7,898. Downingtown was settled by European colonists in the early 18th century and has a number of historic buildings an ...

. He has two adult daughters and three grandsons.

Books

Mowday has published several books: *''J. Howard Wert's Gettysburg'' (Schiffer Publishing) *''Selling Your Book'' (Barricade Books) *''Pickett's Charge: The Untold Story'' (Barricade Books) *''Life With Flavor: A Personal History of Herr's'' (Barricade Books) *''Richie Ashburn: Why The Hall Not? and the Amazing Journey to Cooperstown'' (Barricade Books) *''Jailing the Johnston Gang: Bringing Serial Murderers to Justice'' (Barricade Books); *''Unlikely Allies: Fort Delaware's Prison Community in the Civil War'' (Stackpole Books) *''September 11, 1777: Washington's Defeat at Brandywine Dooms Philadelphia'' (White Mane Publishers) *''Selling of an Author'' (White Mane Publishers) *''West Chester: Six Walking Tours'' (Schiffer Publishing) *"Spanning the Centuries" (a history of Caln Township, Chester County, written with his daughter Melissa Mowday) He has also compiled six books of historical postcards and photographs, published by Arcadia Publishing: *''Along the Brandywine River'' *''Chester County Mushroom Farming'' *''West Chester'' *''Downingtown'' *''Coatesville'' *''Parkesburg''

References

External links

The Mowday Group
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