Catherine Drinker Bowen

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Catherine Drinker Bowen, born January 1, 1897 in Haverford, PA, was an American biographer. She won the 1958 National Book Award in nonfiction for The Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke. In addition, Bowen received the 1957 Philadelphia Award and the 1962 Women's National Book Association award. She died November 1, 1973 in Haverford, PA.

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  • 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 Biographer (1959)
  • Francis Bacon: The Temper of a Man (1963)
  • Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787 (1966) #54 in list of books in the most number of American Libraries. [1]
  • John Adams and the American Revoluition
  • 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 (1978)
  • The writing of biography
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