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Gordon Bowker is an American entrepreneur who began his career as a writer and later co-founded Starbucks with Jerry Baldwin and Zev Siegl. He was later a co-owner of Peet's Coffee & Tea and Redhook Ale Brewery. Biography
- Gordon Bowker (writer)
Gordon Bowker (1934 – 14 January 2019) was an English...
- Gordon Bowker (writer)
It was founded by business partners Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl and Gordon Bowker who first met as students at the University of San Francisco: The trio were inspired to sell high-quality coffee beans and equipment by coffee roasting entrepreneur Alfred Peet.
Jan 26, 2019 · He begins by identifying the literary influences: Zamyatin, Trotsky, Jack London, Belloc, Poe and M. R. James. Orwell’s horror at the Inquisition, his experience of terror in Spain and of the propaganda operation at the BBC, of wretched wartime London and the mysteries of junk shops are all there.
Gordon Bowker (1934 – 14 January 2019) was an English journalist and academic who wrote biographies of Malcolm Lowry, Lawrence Durrell, George Orwell and James Joyce. Life and works. Bowker grew up in a Birmingham devastated by bombing during the Second World War, where he attended grammar school at King Edward VI Camp Hill.
Friends since their University of San Francisco days, Gerald Baldwin, a former English teacher, Gordon Bowker, a writer, and Zev Siegl, a history teacher, were three 20-somethings who were passionate about the arts, fine food, good wine and, of course, great coffee.
He read and reviewed numerous biographies during his life, at various times bemoaning the lack of ‘definitive’ biographies of Conrad, Conan Doyle and George Gissing, and in 1934 he even offered himself to write a centenary biography of Mark Twain for Chatto and Windus.
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Mar 9, 2008 · Writes educational films for a division of King Broadcasting and freelances for the original Seattle magazine, where he meets Terry Heckler, with whom he later starts an advertising agency, and...
