Cowley is the son of prominent writer and literary critic Malcolm Cowley and Muriel Mauer. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, graduating in 1952. Thereafter, he earned an A.B. degree in history in 1956 from Harvard College in Massachusetts.[1]
Personal life
He was married to Blair Cowley; they later divorced and she remarried to artist Paul Resika. They had two daughters, Elizabeth and Miranda. Miranda Cowley, is married to film producer and director Bruno Heller, son of screenwriter Lukas Heller and grandson of political philosopher Hermann Heller. Cowley was married to Susan Cheever, daughter of novelist John Cheever from 1967 to 1975.[2] He married Edith Lorillard, daughter of Elaine Lorillard, who founded the Newport Jazz Festival, in 1978.[1] They have two daughters, Olivia Wassenaar and Savannah Cowley.[3]
Works
1918: Gamble for Victory. The Greatest Attack of World War I, by Robert Cowley, New York, Macmillan Books, 1964. OCLC3860691
Fitzgerald and the Jazz Age, by Malcolm Cowley and Robert Cowley, New York, Scribner, 1966.
The Rulers of Britain, by Robert Cowley, New York, Stonehenge Press, 1982, ISBN0-86706-068-9.
Experience of War, ed. Robert Cowley, New York, Random House, 1993, ISBN0-440-50553-4
The Reader's Companion to Military History, by Robert Cowley and Geoffrey Parker, New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1996, ISBN978-0-618-12742-9
No End Save Victory: Perspectives on World War II, edited by Robert Cowley, New York, Putnam, 2001, ISBN978-0-425-18338-0OCLC44932120
With My Face to the Enemy: Perspectives on the Civil War, ed. Robert Cowley, New York, Putnam, 2001, ISBN978-0-7126-7946-6OCLC45375993
West Point: Two Centuries of Honor and Tradition, edited by Robert Cowley and Thomas Guinzburg, New York: Warner Books, 2002. ISBN0-446-53018-2OCLC49748770
The Great War: Perspectives on the First World War, ed. Robert Cowley, New York, Random House, 2003, ISBN978-1-84413-419-9
The Cold War, ed. Robert Cowley, New York, Random House, 2006, ISBN978-0-8129-6716-6
What If? The World’s Most Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, ed. Robert Cowley, New York, Putnam, 1999, ISBN0-425-17642-8OCLC41338197
More What If? Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, ed. Robert Cowley, New York, Putnam, 2001, ISBN0-399-14795-0
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