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Catherine Drinker Bowen

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American writer (1897-1973)

United StatesMusiciansLived 1897 to 1973 · aged 76
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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. , and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikowsky were Book of the Month Club recommendations.

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1958National Book Award
1958National Book Award for Nonfiction
1957Athenaeum Literary Award

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Ben ArisAlso in The Music Lovers (1971)Max AdrianAlso in The Music Lovers (1971)Christopher GableAlso in The Music Lovers (1971)Witold RybczynskiAlso won Athenaeum Literary AwardJoseph Wood KrutchAlso won National Book Award for NonfictionPaul HalpernAlso won Athenaeum Literary Award

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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.

Country
United States
Category
Musicians
Type
Singer / Musician
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1897 to 1973 · aged 76
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6 languages

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