Family Portrait

Boston: Little, Brown and Company / Atlantic Monthly Press, (1970).

Price: $20.00

Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated. A touch of spotting on the topedge, light bumping at the spine ends, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with spine lightly faded, a small internal stain and mild edgewear. A biography of the author's family, set in Philadelphia and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

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Item #218697 Family Portrait. Catherine Drinker BOWEN.

Catherine Drinker Bowen
birth name: Catherine Drinker Bowen
born: 1/1/1897
died: 11/1/1973

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Biography

American historical biographer known for her partly fictionalized biographies. After attending the Peabody Institute and the Julliard School of Music, she became interested in writing. Not surprisingly, her earliest works were inspired by the lives of musicians. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore