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Quotation by Catherine Drinker Bowen
... my last work is no sooner on the stands than letters come, suggesting a subject. The grandmothers of strangers are crying from the grave, it seems, for literary recognition; it is bewildering, the number of salty grandfathers, aunts and uncles that languish unappreciated.
Catherine Drinker Bowen (1897–1973), U.S. biographer. Adventures of a Biographer, ch. 10 (1959).
Bowen wrote popular biographies of Tchaikovsky, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Adams, and Francis Bacon, among others.
Bowen wrote popular biographies of Tchaikovsky, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Adams, and Francis Bacon, among others.
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