Nick Fowler was born in Nuremberg, Germany, then raised in Ithaca, New York, La Jolla, California, and Tallahassee, Florida. At Cornell University he graduated Dean's List with a degree in creative writing. Fowler has performed his music on the Tonight Show, and composed music for and acted in the HBO drama The Sopranos. His songs have appeared in numerous other hit television series. Fowler was short-listed for the John Lennon Songwriting Prize. The debut album from his band MOTHER, founded with Angie Screams guitarist Arthur Lynn, was signed to music industry icon Al Teller's Atomic Pop Records, the world's first internet recording label. MOTHER placed music in the Sony Pictures' release Mercy. In 2010 Fowler founded the rock band Maximilian is King with guitarist Arthur Lynn, and keyboardist Rob Clores. Their debut recording was mixed by Steve Thompson, who mixed and performed additional production for Guns 'N Roses, Paul Simon, John Lennon, Madonna, Mick Jagger, and David Bowie. His song "Splinter" will appear in the upcoming motion picture "Undocumented." Maximilian is King's debut full-length, Songs to Kill Yourself With, was mixed by Roy Thomas Baker.
Fowler is also a critically-acclaimed author whose fiction the New York Times compared to J.D. Salinger's. Fowler's work has appeared in GQ, Metal Edge, The Encyclopedia of Failed Relationships, The Antioch Review, New York University's Epiphany, Yellow and Vice Versa. His debut novel, A Thing (or Two) About Curtis and Camilla, was published in 2002 by Pantheon/Random House, and was called by the Los Angeles Times "a smash" that "resonates like a perfect pop song." Fowler's poetry has appeared in The TriBeca Review. He has taught fiction-writing at NYU and The New School. He is at work on his second novel, written with Arthur Lynn, in which various New York City visual artists have contributed works of art. Fowler lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with his dog Monkey McGhee.
