Educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, Fowler began his career as an accountant and built up a successful firm before he turned to writing. Having an avid interest in poetry, he helped to found the Empire Poetry League in 1917 with G.K. Chesterton. His work with the League, which included administration of its Merton Press and editing the Poetry journal, continued until 1932. In 1919, he published his first work, Scenes From the Morte d'Arthur, a small volume of poems. His first novel, Amphibians, a work of science fiction, was published in 1925. This ultimately proved successful enough to convince Fowler to commit all his resources to writing. He became a prolific writer and produced some of the best science fiction of the 20th century. His novel, Deluge (1928) sold over a million copies. This success was repeated the following year with The Island of Captain Sparrow. Fowler also wrote numerous detective stories and was a regular contributor to numerous newspapers and periodicals. His popularity waned in the early 1950's and he died in relative obscurity. His many novels included The Case of Anne Bickerton (1930), The Attic Murder (1936), The Adventures of Wyndham Smith (1938) Light Out of Darkness (1939), Dinner in New York (1943), Automata (1947), Brain (1949), Original Sin (1949) and Space in Reverse (1955).
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