Bowen,Catherine Drinker

Bowen,Catherine Drinker
Bow·en (bōʹən), Catherine Drinker. 1897-1973.
American writer of semifictional biographies, such as The Lion and the Throne (1957), a life of Sir Edward Coke.

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