Career
He wrote a number of plays including Beirut, Forty-Deuce, Sharon and Billy, and The Beany and Cecil Show, many of which are available from Broadway Play Publishing Incorporated. He also wrote one novel Wally Wonderstruck. He died of complications related to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome at the age of forty four.
Bowne"s play Beirut was adapted to the 1993 television movie Daybreak starring Cuba Gooding Junior and Moira Kelly.