Bowen, Helen M
author, was born She Dec. 5, 1865, in northern Illinois. received her education in the high schools of Chicago and Englewood. She has traveled extensively in America and abroad, and her Sketches of English Places of Note were among her first efforts. Short stories followed this series of descriptive articles, including Breath From a Cuban Battlefield; Gypsy Musician; and A Summer Vacation. Her most representative work is A. Daughter of Cuba, a story dealing win the great question of Cuban freedom, interwoven with romance. A A