Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Born on this day – Catherine Drinker Bowen:


Catherine Drinker Bowen


Writer

January 1, 1897 – November 1, 1973

Awarded the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1958.

Credits:

The Story of the Oak Tree (1924); A History of Lehigh University (1924); Rufus Starbuck's Wife (1932); Friends and Fiddlers (1935); Beloved Friend (1937); Free artist (1939); Yankee from Olympus: Justice Holmes and His Family (1944); John Adams and the American Revolution (1950); The writing of biography (1951); The Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke (1957); Lord of the Law (1957); Adventures of a Biographer (1959); Bernard DeVoto: Historian, critic, and fighter (1960); Francis Bacon: The Temper of a Man (1963); Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787 (1966); Biography: The Craft and the Calling (1968); Family Portrait (1970); The Most Dangerous Man in America: Scenes from the Life of Benjamin Franklin (1974).

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