Frank Bowling: When were you happiest?

When were you happiest?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Frank Bowling said elsewhere, not written here

Recently, as people began to understand what I am trying to do in my painting.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 June 2026 source ↗

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Basketball player and author

My college years, when everything was possible and I felt physically invulnerable.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2020 source ↗

Ethan Hawke Actor, director and novelist

Now. It would be corny if I say why.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 April 2015 source ↗

Nicholson Baker Contemporary American novelist and writer

When we had children at home. But recently I finished a book about old secrets that I’ve been working on for a long time, and when I was done, I felt a gigantic, joyful relief in having escaped from the corn maze of remembered facts in which I’d been wandering for so long.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 August 2020 source ↗

Stuart Broad English former cricketer and commentator