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Bowen

American

[boh-uhn] / ˈboʊ ən /

noun

Catherine (Shober) Drinker 1897–1973, U.S. biographer and essayist.
Elizabeth (Dorothea Cole), 1899–1973, Anglo-Irish novelist and short-story writer.

Bowen British

/ ˈbəʊən /

noun

Elizabeth ( Dorothea Cole ). 1899–1973, British novelist and short-story writer, born in Ireland. Her novels include The Death of the Heart (1938) and The Heat of the Day (1949)

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Freya Bowen says she has lived with intense menstrual pain since she was 14.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

JSERRA: If the young pitchers come through to support outfielder Blake Bowen & Co.,

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026

“The Crown” beat him to it, so we got “Capote vs. The Swans” along with its greatest accomplishment: Bowen Yang’s Truman Capote impersonation on “Saturday Night Live.”

From Salon • Feb. 12, 2026

Soucek picked out Jarrod Bowen on the right flank and made a perfectly timed run to meet the England forward's low cross with a flicked finish from five yards.

From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026

“I had thought, knowing Miss Bowen had an opponent lurking somewhere, that whomever you might be, you were not in need of any assistance. The paper animals are astonishing, for example.”

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

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