Family Portrait
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1970. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. Item #2331669
ISBN: 0316103942
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed, jacket flap price-clipped. Page ridges lightly foxed, ink name and address on first blank.
xvi, 301 pp. 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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