Lawrence Nowlan

Lawrence Joseph "Doobie" Nowlan Jr. (January 11, 1965 – July 30, 2013) was an American sculptor and figurative artist known for his statues of notable individuals, including Harry Kalas and Jackie Gleason. Nowlan also designed memorials, including the firefighter sculptures at the Wildland Firefighters National Monument in Boise, Idaho, which was his first commission as a sculptor, and the war memorial in Windsor, Vermont. Additionally, Nowlan created the statuette awarded by several major ceremonies, including the ESPN ESPY Award and the My VH1 Music Awards. He was working on an 8-foot, 800 pound statue of Philadelphia boxer, Joe Frazier, at the time of his death in 2013.

Nowlan was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Lawrence and Jeanne Nowlan. He was the grandson of the Science fiction writer, Philip Francis Nowlan, best known as the creator of Buck Rogers. Nowlan was raised in Philadelphia's Overbrook neighborhood before the family moved to nearby Merion, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Archbishop John Carroll High School in Radnor, Pennsylvania.

He received his bachelor's degree from Millersville University in Millersville, Pennsylvania, in 1987. He took a position with a Philadelphia advertising agency as an art director and designer after graduating from Millersville. Though the ad agency paid well, Nowlan later described himself as "miserable" in a 1999 interview with the Valley News.

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