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Catherine Drinker Bowen

Born

in Haverford, Pennsylvania, The United States

January 19, 1897

Died

November 01, 1973

Genre

Biographies & Memoirs

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Catherine Drinker Bowen was born as Catherine Drinker on the Haverford College campus on January 1, 1897, to a prominent Quaker family. She was an accomplished violinist who studied for a musical career at the Peabody Institute and the Juilliard School of Music, but ultimately decided to become a writer. She had no formal writing education and no academic career, but became a bestselling American biographer and writer despite criticism from academics. Her earliest biographies were about musicians. Bowen did all her own research, without hiring research assistants, and sometimes took the controversial step of interviewing subjects without taking notes.

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Average rating: 4.05 · 2,565 ratings · 298 reviews · 37 distinct works • Similar authors

	Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787 4.06 avg rating — 2,061 ratings — published 1966 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	John Adams and the American Revolution 4.42 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 1950 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yankee from Olympus: Justice Holmes and His Family 3.91 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 1944 — 52 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Most Dangerous Man in America: Scenes from the Life of Benjamin Franklin 3.80 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 1974 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Francis Bacon: The Temper of a Man 3.62 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1963 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke, 1552-1634 4.24 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1957 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beloved Friend: The Story of Tchaikowsky and Nadejda Von Meck 4.04 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1937	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Biography: The Craft and the Calling really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1969 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Family Portrait 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1970 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Friends and Fiddlers: Memoirs really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2011 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Writers seldom choose as friends those self-centered characters who are never in trouble, never make mistakes, and always count their change as it is handed to them.”
― Catherine Drinker Bowen

tags: books, writing

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“It is a great, a pleasant thing to have a friend with whom to walk, untroubled, through the woods, by the stream, saying nothing, at peace--the heart all clean and quiet and empty, ready for the spirit that may choose to be its guest.”
― Catherine Drinker Bowen, Friends and Fiddlers: Memoirs

tags: age, friends, music, nature, peace

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“Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.”
― Catherine Drinker Bowen

tags: life, writing

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