Philadelphia-based law firm Drinker Biddle & Reath (now Faegre Drinker), and who was also a chamber music composer and conductor; Jim; Cecil, the founder of the Harvard School of Public Health; and Philip, inventor of the iron lung; and a sister, Ernesta. Catherine's aunt on her father's side was artist Catherine Ann Drinker and on her mother's side noted portraitist Cecilia Beaux. Catherine Drinker married Ezra Bowen, the Chair of Economics at Lehigh University and the author of Social Economics in 1919. They divorced in the 1930s. Catherine married her second husband, Thomas McKean Downs, a surgeon, in 1939. She had two children from her first marriage: Catherine Prince and Ezra Bowen. Ezra went on to become a writer and editor for Sports Illustrated and Time Life. One of her two biological grandsons, Matthew, is an author of creative non-fiction, stage / screenplays, and scholarly articles germane to his field of neuropsychology. Selected works The Story of the Oak Tree (Easton, PA: Chemical Publishing Co., 1924) A History of Lehigh University (South Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh Alumni Bulletin, 1924) Rufus Starbuck's Wife (New York: Putnam, 1932) Friends and Fiddlers (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1935) Beloved Friend: The Story of Tchaikowsky and Nadejda Von Meck (New York: Random House, 1937) Free artist: The story of Anton and Nicholas Rubinstein (New York: Random House, 1939) Yankee from Olympus: Justice Holmes and His Family (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1944) John Adams and the American Revolution (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950) The writing of biography (Boston: 1951) The Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1957) Lord of the Law (New York: American Heritage Publishing Co., 1957) Adventures of a Biographer (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1959) Bernard DeVoto: Historian, critic, and fighter (Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1960) Francis Bacon: The Temper of a Man (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1963) Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787 (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1966), which is #54 on list of books in the most number of American Libraries. Biography: The Craft and the Calling (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1968) Family Portrait (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1970) The Most Dangerous Man in America: Scenes from the Life of Benjamin Franklin (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1974) References Giffuni, Cathe. "Catherine Drinker Bowen: A Bibliography,"