Nick Fowler

Nicholas Russell Fowler was born in Nuremberg, Germany and raised in Ithaca, New York, La Jolla, California, and Tallahassee, Florida. At Cornell University he graduated Dean’s List with a degree in creative writing.

Musical career

Fowler began composing songs and performing them as a busker in the London tube stations when he studied abroad at Queen Mary College in London's East End, according to that university's bursar records. After moving to New York City Fowler teamed up with Grammy-winning guitarist and producer Gregg Wattenberg. Hollywood entertainment mogul Sandy Gallin secured the team a worldwide recording contract with Victory/Polygram Records. Ric Wake (Mariah Carey, Celine Dion) produced their debut recording. Fowler and Wattenberg performed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and toured in support of Paul Rodgers and Bon Jovi. Their song "Real Today" appears in the major motion picture Doctor Giggles, as well as in the video game inspired by this film. Fowler and Wattenberg composed music for and acted in the HBO mob drama The Sopranos. Fowler founded the band MOTHER with guitarist Arthur Lynn of Angie Screams and drummer Keith Carlock (Steely Dan, Sting). MOTHER’s self-titled debut album was signed by Al Teller to Atomic Pop Records, the world's first internet recording label. MOTHER placed music in the Sony Pictures production of Mercy. Fowler's songs have appeared in numerous hit television series, such as "You Don't Remember," featured in 2010 on The CW Network’s 90210 (TV series). This song was produced by Andrew Wyatt of the band Miike Snow. Fowler was short-listed for the John Lennon Songwriting Competition. In 2008 Fowler founded the rock band Maximilian is King with Arthur Lynn, drummer Aaron Brooks (Duff McKagan, Moby), and keyboardist Rob Clores (The Black Crowes, Enrique Iglesias). Their debut recording was mixed by Steve Thompson, who co-produced and mixed Appetite for Destruction by Guns 'N Roses, Graceland by Paul Simon, as well as music by Mick Jagger, David Bowie, and Madonna.

Literary career

Fowler is a critically-acclaimed author whose fiction The New York Times has compared to that of J.D. Salinger, Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald (The New York Times, July 28, 2002 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03E4DE1039F93BA15754C0A9649C8B63&scp=1&sq=A+thing+%28or+two%29+about+curtis+and+camilla&st=nyt.) Fowler's work has appeared in The Encyclopedia of Failed Relationships (Three Rivers/Random House), The Antioch Review, New York University’s literary journal Epiphany, the Berlin-based Pulse, and online fiction journals VICE-VERSA and Yellow. His debut novel, A Thing (or Two) About Curtis and Camilla, was published in 2002 by Pantheon/Random House, and was called by The Los Angeles Times “a smash” that “resonates like a perfect pop song." The Tallahassee Democrat wrote that "Few novels, let alone first ones, delvier such wisdom with as much talent, humor, and emotional force. Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird comes to mind. Fowler's poetry has been published in The TriBeca Review, and his journalism in GQ, POZ, and Metal Edge. He has taught fiction writing at NYU, mediabistro and The New School. He is at work on his second novel, in which various New York City visual artists have contributed works of art.

Fowler lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with his dog Monkey Pickles.