# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/catherine-drinker-bowen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:40:31.538Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/catherine-drinker-bowen"
name: "Catherine Drinker Bowen"
slug: "catherine-drinker-bowen"
description: "Catherine Drinker Bowen was an American biographer. She won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1958 for The Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke. She received the Women's National Book Association Award in 1962. Her biographies of John Adams, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikowsky were Book of the Month Club recommendations. She was the first woman to receive an honorary degree from Lehigh University."
tagline: "American writer (1897–1973)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Catherine_Drinker_Bowen_1944.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1897-01-01"
deathDate: "1973-11-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.1
  momentum:             4.75260844868307
  historical:           6.150541333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0100810/"
    handle:    "nm0100810"
sources:
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    title: "Catherine Drinker Bowen"
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    title: "كاثرين درينكر بوين"
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    title: "كاثرين درينكر بوين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Drinker_Bowen"
    title: "Catherine Drinker Bowen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Drinker_Bowen"
    title: "Catherine Drinker Bowen"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Drinker_Bowen"
    title: "Catherine Drinker Bowen"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Catherine Drinker Bowen"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump