Will Fowler was an American writer/journalist/composer of American Nocturn, Yesterglow, Morning in Manhattan, Sleep, Sleep, Sleep and He's So Married, which was recorded by Doris Day in 1959. He wrote the bestseller, The Young Man From Denver, a biography of his famous father, Gene Fowler, as well as The Second Handshake, and Reporters: Memoirs of a Young Newspaperman.

Will Fowler was also a writer on TV's The Red Skelton Show (1952-53), and co-founder of the Greater Los Angeles Press Club. Fowler was the Los Angeles Examiner journalist (1944-47) who claimed to be the first on the scene of the infamous Black Dahlia murder. The sensational murder of Elizabeth Short, who was severed at the waist, remains unsolved.

Full or original name at birth: William Randolph Fowler

Date and place of birth: August 29, 1922, Jamaica Hospital, Jamaica, New York, U.S.A.

Date, place and cause of death: April 14, 2004, Providence St. Joseph Medical Center, Burbank, California, U.S.A. (Prostate cancer)

Marriage
Wife: Beverly Blanchard (m. February 7, 1943)
Wedding took place at the West Los Angeles Methodist Church, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

Children
Sons: Will Timothy Fowler (known as Willie Fowler) and Michael Fowler
Daughters: Claudia Fowler, Jenny Gene Fowler, and Kiku

Parents
Father: Gene Fowler (an author and screenwriter) (b. March 8, 1890, Denver, Colorado - d. July 2, 1960, at approximately 4:00 p.m., Brentwood, Los Angeles, California)
Mother: Agnes (Hubbard) Fowler

Burial site: Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California, U.S.A.

The most in-depth of more than two dozen sources consulted in preparing this profile, was Will Fowler's 1962 autobiographical book, The Young Man from Denver.

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