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A Short Biography of Catherine Drinker Bowen

Author Name:

Catherine Drinker Bowen

Born As:

Catherine Drinker

Other Names:

Born:

01 Jan 1897

Died:

01 Nov 1973




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Selected works:

Beloved Friend: The Story of Tchaikowsky and Nadejda Von Meck - 1937
Free artist: The story of Anton and Nicholas Rubinstein - 1939
Yankee from Olympus: Justice Holmes and His Family - 1944
The Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke - 1957
Adventures of a Biographer - 1959
Francis Bacon: The Temper of a Man - 1963
Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787 - 1966, which is #54 on list of books in the most number of American Libraries. [1]
John Adams and the American Revolution
Bernard DeVoto: Historian, critic, and fighter
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Scenes from the Life of Benjamin Franklin
Family Portrait
Story of the oak tree
Lord of the law
A History of Lehigh University
Biography: The Craft and the Calling - 1968
The writing of biography                          
Mother 
Father Henry Sturgis Drinker, six children. Harry, Jim, Cecil and Philip, inventor of the iron lung, and one sister, Ernesta.
Husband Ezra Bowen, Chair of Economics at Lehigh University and author of "Social Economics."  One son.                          
National Book Award in nonfiction for The Lion and the Throne - 1958
The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke - 1552-1634, a biography of the prominent lawyer of Elizabethan England. 

Philadelphia Award - 1957 
Women's National Book Association award - 1962

Family Portrait - Literary Guild selection. 
At the time of her death in 1973, she was working on a biography of Benjamin Franklin, which was published posthumously.