Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Catherine Bowen, née Catherine Shober Drinker
American Historical Biographer
"Chamber music - a conversation between friends."
"Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness."
"The professors laugh at themselves, they laugh at life; they long ago abjured the bitch-goddess Success, and the best of them will fight for his scholastic ideals with a courage and persistence that would shame a soldier. The professor is not afraid of words like truth; in fact he is not afraid of words at all."