Wallace Fowlie (1908–1998), American writer and professor of literature
Whilst scouting for locations to film a movie in Tahiti about the mutiny on the HMS Bounty, David Lean is notified that his property master, Eddie Fowlie, had discovered an anchor at the bottom of the sea which had belonged to Captain Cook.
Fowlie corresponded with literary figures such as Henry Miller, René Char, Jean Cocteau, André Gide, Alexis Léger (Saint-John Perse), Marianne Moore, and Anaïs Nin.