Career
She also wrote three non-fiction books about Shenandoah National Park for adults. During the last year of her life she wrote a column for children in The Washington Post (KidsPost) about Civil War history. Carolyn Bruce Owens was born in Washington, District of Columbia
She studied organ and voice at American University where she graduated in 1959 with a degree in music
She lived in Glen Echo, Maryland. She was afflicted by kidney cancer and died in a Washington hospital.