Bowen, Catherine Drinker 1897-1973

Overview

Works:	147 works in 664 publications in 5 languages and 27,136 library holdings
Genres:	Biography Drama Musical films Biographical films History Controversial literature Film adaptations Records and correspondence
Roles:	Author, Author of introduction, Composer, Bibliographic antecedent, Conceptor, Creator, Speaker
Classifications:	JK146, B

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Catherine Drinker Bowen

The music lovers( Visual )
Thomas Shuler Shaw papers by Thomas Shuler Shaw( )
Bowen, Catherine Drinker : 76( )
[Catherine Drinker Bowen, head-and-shoulders portrait, seated, facing front]( Visual )
Passionate history : Catherine Drinker Bowen and the narrative biography by William R Luckham( )

Ken Russell's film "the music lovers"( Visual )
by Sophie Hutchinson Drinker( )
Honorary degree recipient for 1948, Catherine Drinker Bowen( )
Lessing J. Rosenwald papers by Lessing J Rosenwald( )
by Amelia Muir Baldwin( )
Bruce Bliven papers by Bruce Bliven( )
Bowen, Catherine Drinker( )
by Friends of the Schlesinger Library( )
Bernard De Voto papers by Bernard De Voto( )
Women's National Book Association records by Women's National Book Association( )
Letters by Julia Cooley Altrocchi( )
Lawrence S. Kubie papers by Lawrence S Kubie( )
Catherine Drinker Bowen( )
by Sophie Hutchinson Drinker( )
Jacques Barzun papers by Jacques Barzun( )

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Most widely held works by Catherine Drinker Bowen

Miracle at Philadelphia : the story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787 by Catherine Drinker Bowen( Book )

49 editions published between 1966 and 2013 in English and Chinese and held by 4,731 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A history of the Federal Convention at Philadelphia in 1787 that produced the Constitution of the U.S

Yankee from Olympus : Justice Holmes and his family by Catherine Drinker Bowen( Book )

72 editions published between 1943 and 2007 in English and held by 3,165 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes who became a Supreme Court Justice, with information on several generations of ancestors and descendants

John Adams and the American Revolution by Catherine Drinker Bowen( Book )

37 editions published between 1949 and 1979 in English and held by 2,980 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The most dangerous man in America: scenes from the life of Benjamin Franklin by Catherine Drinker Bowen( Book )

16 editions published between 1974 and 1987 in 3 languages and held by 2,144 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Recounts the life and career of Benjamin Franklin

The lion and the throne : the life and times of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634) by Catherine Drinker Bowen( Book )

32 editions published between 1956 and 2002 in English and held by 1,858 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Sir Edward Coke - Lord Coke, his contemporaries called him - was Queen Elizabeth's Attorney General and Chief Justice under James, first Stuart King of England ... Coke's life covered a long span, a wide arc of time; with him the Middle Ages ended and today began. Coke was English law personified. ... Sir Edward Coke never set foot on American soil. Yet no United States citizen can read his story without a sense of immediate recognition. In these parliamentary struggles, knights, citizens and burgesses fought not for themselves alone but for states as yet unformed: Pennsylvania, Virginia, California. In Westminster courtroom battles over procedure, jurisdiction, "right reason and the common law," constitutional government found its way to birth. When the time came we changed the face of this English constitution; amid the sound of guns we repudiated what we hated, adapted what we liked. Yet the heritage endured. -- PREFACE

"Beloved friend" : the story of Tchaikowsky and Nadejda von Meck by Catherine Drinker Bowen( Book )

36 editions published between 1937 and 1976 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,853 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Largely excerpts from the correspondence between Tchaikowdky and Nadejda von Meck, translated by Barbara von Meck from the original Russian edition (Moscow, 1934-6) and given by her, with notes and recollections of persons and places involved, to Mrs. Bowen, who wrote the connecting narrative

Family portrait by Catherine Drinker Bowen( Book )

6 editions published in 1970 in English and held by 1,202 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This autobiography extended beyond the author to include the other members of the prominent Quaker family into which Bowen was born. One brother invented the iron lung; another founded Harvard School of Public Health. Bowen herself was a bestselling American biographer who won the 1957 Philadelphia Award and the 1962 Women's National Book Association award. Family Portrait was her last book

Adventures of a biographer by Catherine Drinker Bowen( Book )

7 editions published in 1959 in English and held by 1,046 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Biography: the craft and the calling by Catherine Drinker Bowen( Book )

10 editions published between 1969 and 1978 in English and held by 873 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Free artist" : the story of Anton and Nicholas Rubinstein by Catherine Drinker Bowen( Book )

15 editions published between 1939 and 1961 in English and held by 866 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Friends and fiddlers by Catherine Drinker Bowen( Book )

13 editions published between 1935 and 2017 in English and held by 463 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The writing of biography by Catherine Drinker Bowen( Book )

5 editions published between 1951 and 1970 in English and held by 389 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

An essay on the author's experience in writing John Adams

The art of history : two lectures : The old history and the new by Allan Nevins( Book )

8 editions published in 1967 in English and held by 290 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The most dangerous man in America : scenes from the life of Benjamin Franklin by Catherine Drinker Bowen( )

9 editions published between 1988 and 2010 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 173 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Focuses on specific scenes in Franklin's colorful life, including his younger days learning the printer's trade, experiments and discoveries with electricity, activity in the Albany Congress of 1754, nine years in London, and his part in America's revolutionary plans

Geliebte Freundin : Tschaikowskys Leben und sein Briefwechsel mit Nadeshda von Meck by Catherine Drinker Bowen( Book )

43 editions published between 1938 and 1967 in German and Undetermined and held by 121 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A history of Lehigh University by Catherine Drinker Bowen( Book )

8 editions published between 1924 and 1982 in English and held by 84 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Le Rendezvous de Philadelphie by Catherine Drinker Bowen( Book )

6 editions published in 1970 in French and held by 64 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Miracle at Philadelphia by Catherine Drinker Bowen( Recording )

9 editions published between 1966 and 2008 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 59 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787, as "told" by James Madison, the secretary

The biographer looks for news; an address by Catherine Drinker Bowen( Book )

2 editions published in 1958 in English and held by 58 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Francis Bacon, the temper of the man by Catherine Drinker Bowen( Book )

3 editions published in 1963 in English and held by 16 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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