1. Dawn Powell - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Dawn Powell (November 28, 1896 – November 14, 1965) was an American writer of satirical novels and stories that manage to be barbed and sensitive at the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Powell

Dawn Powell From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Dawn Powell Dawn Powell, c.1914 Born November 28 Mount Gilead, Ohio U.S. Died November 14 New York New York U.S. Dawn Powell November 28 November 14 ) was an American writer of satirical novels and stories that manage to be barbed and sensitive at the same time. Contents Biography Quotes References in Popular Culture Selected works ... edit Biography Powell was born in Mount Gilead, Ohio , a village 45 miles north of Columbus and the county seat of Morrow County, Ohio . Powell regularly gave her birth year as 1897 but primary documents support the earlier date. After her mother died when Powell was seven, she lived with a series of relatives around the state. Her father re-married, but his second wife was harsh and abusive toward the children; when her stepmother destroyed her notebooks and diaries, she ran away to live with an aunt, who encouraged her creative work. Powell later gave her childhood fictional form in the novel My Home Is Far Away At Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio

2. Featured Author: Dawn Powell Dawn Powell s first promotional photograph, probably issued in 1925. Lisa Zeidner Reviews Tim Page s Dawn Powell A Biography (November 15, 1998) http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/11/15/specials/powell.html

Featured Author: Dawn Powell With News and Reviews From the Archives of The New York Times In This Feature Reviews of Dawn Powell's Books Articles About and By Dawn Powell Related Links Richard Bernstein Reviews 'Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965' (Oct. 22, 1999) Lorrie Moore Reviews 'Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965' (Nov. 7, 1999) Collection Tim Page/ From "Dawn Powell" Dawn Powell's first promotional photograph, probably issued in 1925. REVIEWS OF DAWN POWELL'S BOOKS: Turn, Magic Wheel "Amusing and witty as it is, this tale of publishers and writers, of night-club addicts and the padded rich, is not precisely comfortable to read." The Happy Island "Stinging contempt and a wicked sense of humor have gone into the making of 'The Happy Island.' Somehow or other, however, Miss Powell's material has betrayed her. One is left with a covert suspicion that it was hardly worth her time." Angels on Toast "Powell has an exceptionally keen ear for dialogue and she can write really witty lines. . . . Her novel is amusing but formless and inconclusive." A Time to Be Born "Powell's new book maintains and probably tops her record for writing very enjoyable books about very disagreeable people."

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4. WOSU Presents Ohioana Authors | Dawn Powell Dawn Powell was born in Mount Gilead, Ohio, on November 28, 1896. In 1903, her mother died from what many believe was a botched illegal abortion, and Dawn http://www.ohioana-authors.org/powell/highlights.php

Ohioana Authors list Highlights of a Life The Ohio Connection The Works of Dawn Powell ... Christopher Purdy on Dawn Powell Highlights of a Life After graduation Dawn moved to New York City, where she would remain for the rest of her life. "There is really one city for everyone just as there is one major love," she wrote. That major love may have been Joseph Roebuck Gousha, who she met and married in 1920, and with whom she remained for 42 years, until his death. The couple honeymooned at the Hotel Pennsylvania on Seventh Avenue near Pennsylvania Station, then moved to 31 Riverside Drive. In 1921 Dawn gave birth to a son, Jojo, who had what is now known as autism. He required constant care and was periodically institutionalized. After his birth Dawn began writing seriously. Her first novel, Whither, was published in 1925 by the Boston publisher Small, Maynard. After its publication Dawn disavowed the book and later claimed that her second novel, She Walks in Beauty, Whither She Walks in Beauty was published in 1928 to critical acclaim and abysmal sales.

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9. Marvin Memorial Library: Bibliography, Dawn Powell Dawn Powell is a well known, awardwinning writer who grew up in Shelby, Ohio. She has written a total of 15 novels, many short stories, and several plays. http://www.shelbymm.lib.oh.us/readerscorner/powell/dawnpowell.html

Dawn Powell Dawn Powell is a well known, award-winning writer who grew up in Shelby, Ohio. She has written a total of 15 novels, many short stories, and several plays. Shelby is well known for the trains that passed through night and day. Dawn included trains in most all of her works. Dawn Powell was born in Mount Gilead in 1897, but grew up in Shelby with her Aunt Orpha May Sherman Steinbrueck. They lived on 121 North Broadway. Items listed below are available at Marvin Memorial. Biography Dawn Powell: A Biography by Tim Page Powell had come to New York City at the age of twenty-one, a gifted and ambitious young woman from a small-town in Ohio. There she lived, usually in some form of domestic uncertainty, for the next forty-seven years. But she always managed to maintain the fresh perspective of a "permanent visitor," exalting the multiplicity and sheer sensory overload of Manhattan. This is what she distilled into her extensive and impressive body of work: her poems, stories, articles, plays, and her dizzying and inventive novels. Tim Page gracefully and intelligently explores all the fascinating ironies and often sad complexities of Powell's life and work. Gore Vidal once referred to her as "our best comic novelist," deserving to be as widely read as Hemingway and Fitzgerald. This biography will be a capstone to her triumphant rise to her establishment among the giants of twentieth-century American literature.

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[an error occurred while processing this directive] Go to Chapter One Section The Diaries of Dawn Powell 1931 - 1965 By Dawn Powell Chapter One: The Early Diaries Introduction Dawn Powell lived to write. In her case, this statement is not an empty phrase, nor is it an exaggeration. Powell was writing steadily by the time she was twelve; in the last year of her life, when she was mortally ill, her concerns were not so much with her failing health and ever-dwindling weight as with her inability to make headway on any of her writing projects. Considering the difficulties Powell faced throughout most of her sixty-eight yearsan unconventional and sometimes deeply unhappy marital life, near-constant money troubles, the demands of a mentally and emotionally impaired son, heavy drinking that was debilitating at times, recurrent (and often mysterious) health problems, and what might now be described as a"bipolar"personalityit is astonishing that she wrote so prolifically and wrote so well. Besides her fifteen published novels, Powell left at least 100 short stories, half-a-dozen plays, an enormous quantity of book reviews and occasional pieces, thousands of personal letters, and her magnificent diaries. Exactly when Powell began keeping a diary is unknown. She ran away from home around the age of twelve, because her stepmother had burned her notebooks and stories; that notorious bonfire may well have included some early diaries. A volume filled with observations, drawings, and poems, dating from after her runaway (circa 1910) survived into the late 1960s but has now apparently disappeared. During the summer of 1915, while working as a maid and waitress at a summer resort called the Shore Club on Lake Erie, Powell kept an occasional journal in a school notebook, addressed to an imaginary friend named"Woggs":

12. Dawn Powell (1896-1965) American Writer. (18961965) American writer. During her lifetime, dawn powell created poems, short stories, articles, and plays. Her works include Angel on Toast, http://classiclit.about.com/od/powelldawn/Powell_Dawn.htm

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13. Salon Books | How Dawn Powell Can Save Your Life Ground down in a world driven by envy, greed and hypocrisy? America s wittiest satirist can help. http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1999/09/30/powell/

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16. Salon Books | New York Finally Turns Out For Dawn Powell Love fest for the novelist the Big Apple once spurned. http://archive.salon.com/books/log/2000/01/27/powell/index.html

Search Archives Contact Us Table Talk ... Columnists Also Today For a full list Search Salon Advanced Search Help Recently in Salon Books Log Hip-hop launches new breed of black pulp fiction Saul Bellow biographer makes room for baby Tom Wolfe calls Irving, Mailer and Updike "the Three Stooges" Will "Primary Colors" author score another win? ... Complete archives for Books New York finally turns out for Dawn Powell Love fest for the novelist the Big Apple once spurned. By Maria Russo Jan. 27, 2000 I hate slightly familiar people," read novelist Kate Christensen to a group of about 100 New Yorkers who braved a snowstorm Tuesday night to attend a tribute to the late Dawn Powell. The quip, which comes from Powell's diary entry for April 6, 1931, made the whole audience laugh it was the kind of dead-on Powell line that rings true for anyone who's done time on the literary party circuit. Dawn Powell and New York seldom has the match between a city and a writer been so felicitous. The wise, wickedly funny Ohio-born author loved New York better than any place else, but her writings went virtually unnoticed during her lifetime, and when she died in 1965 she was pretty much forgotten. At Tuesday's tribute (hosted by Housing Works Used Book Café), six authors, all Powell devotees, read selections from her work and it was clear that, finally, New York adored her right back. The evening's readers included novelist Susan Minot and Tim Page, Powell's modest, persevering

17. Powell's Books - Library Of America #127: Dawn Powell Novels, 1944-1962: My Home American literature has known few writers capable of the comic élan and fullbodied portraiture that abound in the novels of dawn powell. http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=9781931082020

18. Dawn Powell Quotes 12 quotes and quotations by dawn powell. dawn powell A novel is like a gland pill it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/d/dawn_powell.html

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20. Dayton Metro Library - Default Reference Desk Steerforth recently brought her novel The Happy Island back into print (Classic Returns, LJ 11/15/98), and her first biography, Tim Page s dawn powell (LJ http://www.daytonmetrolibrary.org/default/Reference/BibTemp.cfm?Code=2003Fic

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