Bruce Mowday


Bruce E. Mowday is an author who lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He specializes in books about local history, business, sports, and true crime. He is active with the Chester County History Center.

Professional life

Mowday began working as a sportswriter for the ' while still in high school. He continued his journalism career at the Daily Local News in West Chester, Pennsylvania, 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 '; the book was later cited by the Johnston brothers in an unsuccessful appeal for a new trial.
Mowday co-founded the in 2004 with writers and . He has been a guest speaker on the subject of writing and publishing, for both that group and the in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.

Personal life

Mowday lives in West Chester, Pennsylvania. He has two adult daughters and three grandsons.

Books

Mowday has published several books:
  • J. Howard Wert's Gettysburg
  • Selling Your Book
  • Pickett's Charge: The Untold Story
  • Life With Flavor: A Personal History of Herr's
  • Richie Ashburn: Why The Hall Not? and the Amazing Journey to Cooperstown
  • Jailing the Johnston Gang: Bringing Serial Murderers to Justice ;
  • "A Killer at the Door: The Dramatic Prison Break and Manhunt for Convicted Murderer Danilo Cavalcante"
  • "Lafayette at Brandywine: The Making of an American Hero"
  • "Lafayette: America's Young Hero & Guest"
  • "Emotional Gettysburg"
  • "Emotional Brandywine"
  • Unlikely Allies: Fort Delaware's Prison Community in the Civil War
  • September 11, 1777: Washington's Defeat at Brandywine Dooms Philadelphia
  • Selling of an Author
  • West Chester: Six Walking Tours
  • "Spanning the Centuries"
  • “Small Town Cops in the Crosshairs - The 1972 Sniper Slayings of Policemen William Davis & Richard Posey”,
He has also compiled six books of historical postcards and photographs, published by Arcadia Publishing: