‘Born Catherine Drinker to a prominent Philadelphia Quaker family in suburban Haverford, Pennsylvania, she studied the violin at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore and the Juilliard School in New York, but later decided to pursue a career as a writer despite her lack of training. She became a best-selling author of biographies and history books from 1937 to 1968, winning several prizes.’ image from www.tias.com/
“Riviera Romance. [...] the Mediterranean [...] from Middletown” by Catherine Drinker Bowen (1897-1973) 👉ALT
*Pictorial Review*, January 1932
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