Aubrey Bowser(1886-1980)
- Writer
Aubrey H. Bowser, a teacher and freelance writer in the New York City
metropolitan area, was the son-in-law of famed African-American
newspaperman T. Thomas Fortune, the leading Black journalist of the
nineteenth century. A 1908 graduate of Harvard University, upon
graduation, Bowser went to work on the staff of his father-in-law's
newspaper, the New York "Age"; he would subsequently become a English
teacher in the New York City Public School system. Bowser adapted the
screenplay for this movie from his short story "The Man Who Would Be
White."