Family Portrait

Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1970.

Price: $19.50

Hardcover. First edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. Hardcover and dust jacket both lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners, hardcover has some fading to top and bottom edges, dust jacket soiled and worn, lightly faded.

Item #243775

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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