Setelah mengenyam pendidikan di Oxford, Fowler menjadi kepala sekolah hingga pertengahan usianya dan bekerja di London sebagai penulis dan jurnalis lepas, tetapi kurang sukses. Bersama adiknya, Francis, pada 1906, ia mulai menerbitkan buku-buku tata bahasa, gaya bahasa dan leksikografi. Setelah kematian adiknya tahun 1918, ia menyelesaikan karya-karya yang belum mereka selesaikan dan menyunting beberapa karya tambahan.
Karya
Buku
More Popular Fallacies. London: Elliot Stock, 1904.
with F. G. Fowler, trans. The Works of Lucian. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905.
Burchfield, Robert, 3rd ed. Modern English Usage, Oxford University Press, 1996, ISBN 0-19-869126-2
Coulton, G. C.. H. W. Fowler. The Society for Pure English, Tract no. 43, 1935, a memoir by his friend and former colleague at Sedbergh School
Fowler, H. W. Modern English Usage, Oxford University Press, 1926, Wordsworth Edition reprint, 1994, ISBN 1-85326-318-4
Gowers, Sir Ernest., 2nd ed. Modern English Usage, Oxford University Press, 1965
McMorris, Jenny, The Warden of English: The Life of H.W. Fowler, Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-19-866254-8
Onions, C. T. (ed). Shorter Oxford Dictionary, first edition, Oxford University Press, 1933
Sheidlower, Jesse. "Elegant Variation and All That". Review of The New Fowler's Modern English Usage, by H. W. Fowler and ed. R. W. Burchfield. Atlantic Monthly, December 1996: 112–118, http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/96dec/fowler/fowler.htm.
