Biography: The Craft and the Calling

Boston: Little, Brown, (1969).

Price: $350.00

Hardcover. First edition. Light offsetting to the front endpapers from a clipping or letter, else fine in near fine dustwrapper with a little light wear at the spinal extremities. A book about the technical difficulties Bowen encountered while writing the seven biographies she authored. The Dedication Copy, Inscribed by the author to her editor (and fellow author) Barbara Rex: "For the best editor anywhere, With love and gratitude, Kitty. October, 1968." With Rex's ownership Signature. The printed dedication reads, simply: "For Barbara Rex."

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ISBN: 0316103802

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Item #43565 Biography: The Craft and the Calling. 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