The Nature of the Artist
CATHERINE DRINKER BOWEN was a musician before she became a biographer, and her violin is as dear to her as any of her books. Among her early books are BELOVED FRIEND: THE STORY OF TCHAIKOWSKY AND NADEJDA VON MECK,and her biography of the brothers Rubinstein, FREE ARTIST,both of which have just been reprinted: then she turned her attention to three great lawyers, Justice Holmes, young John Adams, and Sir Edward Coke, Queen Elizabeth’s great advocate. Mrs. Bowen is note in England in search of source material about Francis Bacon.