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	Dawn Powell
		Dawn was accepted as a member of the class of 1918, her expenses paid partially by Orpha May (whom she listed in the school records as her sole "parent"), partially by a Shelby attorney named G.
		Powell also had a shadowy but fairly steady relationship with a boy whose name has come down to us only as "Ben." He is mentioned, with varying degrees of fondness, in her letters from 1916 until late 1918, after which time he seems to have vanished from her life forever.
		Powell was never deeply committed to politics; it was altogether typical of her to be more attracted to the "perfect circus" she found in the recruitment experience than devoted in some self-sacrificial manner to an important cause.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/p/page-powell.html (8505 words)

	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 same time.
		Powell was born in Mount Gilead, Ohio, a village 45 miles north of Columbus and the county seat of Morrow County, Ohio.
		Powell's output after the war slowed down, but included some of her most acclaimed New York novels, including The Locusts Have No King (1948), a portrait of the disintegration and eventual rekindling of a love affair against the background of the city and the onset of the Cold War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dawn_Powell (897 words)

	Amazon.ca: Dance Night: Books: Dawn Powell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		DAWN POWELL lived from 1897 to 1965 and was the author of fifteen novels, numerous short stories, and half-a-dozen plays.
		Dawn Powell (1897-1965) received little attention in her lifetime, but her novels are now in print and accessible due to the critical efforts of Gore Vidal and Tim Page, among others.
		Powell brings the grubby town of Lamptown, Ohio to aching life; you won't soon forget her finely-etched characters and their desperate efforts to create some happiness among the cargo trains and factory whistles and backsteet affairs that define the limits of their lives at the dawn of the Great Depression.
	www.amazon.ca /Dance-Night-Dawn-Powell/dp/188364271X (1124 words)

	Amazon.de: Dawn Powell: A Biography: English Books: Tim Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		Dawn Powell: A Biography is the first published account of her life story, as chronicled via letters, diary entries, and reminiscences from surviving relatives and friends.
		Powell was largely forgotten until 1987, when Gore Vidal wrote an article about her in the New York Review of Books that led to the rediscovery and reprinting of her books.
		Powell's personal life was marked by tragedy: her 40-year marriage to a hard-drinking advertising executive was colored by her affairs and the birth of a mentally and emotionally impaired son.
	www.amazon.de /Dawn-Powell-Biography-Tim-Page/dp/0805063013 (942 words)

	Amazon.com: Dawn Powell: Novels 1944-1962 (Library of America): Books: Dawn Powell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		Powell was a noteworthy novelist of mid-20th-century America whose satirical observations and keen sense of the complexities of social relationships unfolded into a perceptive chronicle of the two milieus she knew so well the melancholy frustrations of small-town life in Ohio and the brutal sophistication of uptown Manhattan.
		Dawn Powell was the tirelessly observant chronicler of two very different worlds: the small-town Ohio of her childhood and the sophisticated Manhattan to which she gravitated.
		Dawn Powell produced a substantial body of excellent work describing the places and lives (primarily her own) with which she was familiar.
	www.amazon.com /Dawn-Powell-1944-1962-Library-America/dp/1931082022 (2279 words)

	Marvin Memorial Library: Bibliography, Dawn Powell
		Dawn Powell was born in Mount Gilead in 1897, but grew up in Shelby with her Aunt Orpha May Sherman Steinbrueck.
		Dawn Powell's portrait of Sophie - a woman who is sharply aware of her own needs and inner-conflicts - is a surprisingly modern one in a 1929 novel.
		In his introduction, Powell's biographer, Tim Page, suggests that Sophie's struggle and her ambivalence may have mirrored the married Powell's involvement with the playwright John Howard Lawson at the time she was writing The Bride's House.
	www.shelbymm.lib.oh.us /bibliography/powell/dawnpowell.html (1740 words)

	Amazon.ca: Turn, Magic Wheel: Books: Dawn Powell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		Powell is a writer who deserves the acclaim she has recently received.
		Powell does not yet seem to have completely found her narrative voice and this leads to some hurky-jerk story telling.
		Dawn Powell is a genius and this may be her greatest book.
	www.amazon.ca /Turn-Magic-Wheel-Dawn-Powell/dp/1883642728 (955 words)

	Powell,Dawn Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Dawn Powell's incomparable diaries provide a tough-minded, witty, courageous account of her days in New York City, when she was trying to succeed as a writer, cope with her difficult son, and remain a vital part of the city's literary milieu.
		Dawn Powell's correspondents included Malcolm Lowry, John Dos Passos, and Edmund Wilson, and her letters are as brilliant, witty, and just plain fun to read as her novels.
		Powell's family chronicle, set at the turn of the century, is based on her own family's life.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Powell,Dawn (1161 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: The Diaries of Dawn Powell 1931 to 1965
		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.
		Powell and Gousha were married on November 20, 1920 at Manhattan's Little Church Around The Corner and they spent their honeymoon at the Pennsylvania Hotel on Seventh Avenue and 32nd Street.
		Powell loved her son dearly, and her joys in his small successes, anguish over setbacks, and elaborate plans for improving his condition run through all of her diaries.
	washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/diaries.htm (3634 words)

	A Writer's Diary: Dawn Powell, Griet & Me
		Her biographer claims that there are no records of Powell ever having been paid royalties for any of her novels, so maybe she wrote them fast to pay the bills.
		She usually pits a country girl from Ohio (where Powell herself was born) against the city slickers in New York (where Powell moved to as a young woman seeking artistic freedom--more about this in a minute).
		I was trying to articulate how the ending of the book spoke to me. Griet, the main character, has the soul of an artist, yet her life is circumscribed by the times (1669) and she never gets to express much of her creativity.
	www.cynthiaharrison.com /archives/2003/10/dawn_powell_gri.html (506 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: A Time to Be Born: Books: Dawn Powell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		Dawn Powell always denied that Amanda Keeler was based upon the real-life Clare Boothe Luce, until years later when she discovered a memo she'd written to herself in 1939 that said, "Why not do a novel on Clare Luce?" Which prompted Powell to write in her diary "Who can I believe?
		Dawn Powell (1896 --1965) is an American novelist whose works have captured some attention in recent years.
		Powell's "A Time to be Born" (1942) takes place in New York City just as the United States is preparing to enter WW II.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Time-Be-Born-Dawn-Powell/dp/1883642418 (1249 words)

	CNN - New York finally turns out for Dawn Powell - January 28, 2000
		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.
		He presented a trademark passage from Powell's diary describing a fancy party she attended at which some pretty young thing inconveniently died in the middle of the festivities.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/books/news/01/28/dawn.powell.salon (522 words)

	Good For You: Dawn Powell: A Time To Be Born I
		Dawn Powell gets "discovered" every twenty years or so, as I think Gore Vidal remarked a while back.
		The reason for Powell's relapses into obscurity are not difficult to make out, but they're a reflection of American weaknesses, not of any want of skill and talent on Powell's part.
		Most of Powell's characters are only barely respectable, or not really respectable at all, and they know that the people around them are no better, but the pretence must be kept up.
	www.portifex.com /GoodForYou/archives/2005/04/dawn_powell_a_t.html (1447 words)

	Salon Books \| Dawn Powell: A Biography
		All of Powell's difficult early life in rural Ohio (her mother died, probably of a botched abortion, and her salesman father remarried a remarkably cruel woman) was a rehearsal for New York, the city that would define her life and work.
		In spite of or perhaps because of the pain of her family life, Powell was remarkably prolific, producing 15 novels, more than 100 stories and several plays.
		Powell's many fans will find much in this affectionate account to admire, including her fantastic determination and energy: She finished the highly acclaimed novel "The Golden Spur" the year Joe died, and just a few years before cancer claimed her in 1965.
	www.salon.com /books/sneaks/1998/11/13sneaks.html (700 words)

	Amazon.com: The Wicked Pavilion: Books: Dawn Powell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		Powell is one of American literature's most lethal wits?she could hold her own against Dorothy Parker any time?and should be in all library collections.
		Dawn Powell (1897-1965) grew up in rural Ohio, but spent most of her adult life in New York City.
		If one finds Powell's caricature of the art world too one-dimensional, her insights about a struggling artist's plights are painfully immediate and ultimately, with the ruins of her life haunting these pages, authoritative.
	www.amazon.com /Wicked-Pavilion-Dawn-Powell/dp/1883642396 (2245 words)

	Amazon.de: Dawn Powell at Her Best: Including the Novels "Dance Night" and "Turn Magic Wheel" and Selected Stories: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		Powell seems to sum up her artistic position in the short story "What Are You Doing in My Dreams?" whose narrator feels she "left Ohio...
		And she closely studied the New York glitterati and city sophisticates; the novel Turn, Magic Wheel lays bare the Big Apple's literary scene and reveals a young writer to be a self-serving parasite.
		Powell's work is a testament to her belief that ``true wit should break a wise man's heart.
	www.amazon.de /Dawn-Powell-at-Her-Best/dp/1883642167 (657 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965: Livres en anglais: Dawn Powell,Tim Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		Dawn Powell has often been overlooked since her death at 67 in 1965, but her brilliant novels, such as Angels On Toast, A Time to Be Born and The Wicked Pavilion are returning to print.
		And scattered throughout are witty and gossipy essays about living in literary New York and socializing and working with such characters as Edmund Wilson, John Dos Passos, her editor Max Perkins, and the woman to whom she was often unfairly compared,Dorothy Parker.
		A prolific novelist, short-story writer and playwright from the 1930s through the '50s, Powell, who was forgotten for 25 years after her death, is now, with the republication of her best work, and praise from Gore Vidal and John Updike, becoming a name to be reckoned with again.
	www.amazon.fr /Diaries-Dawn-Powell-1931-1965/dp/1883642086 (584 words)

	Permanent Visitor: A Festival Celebrating Dawn Powell in NY, a CurtainUp feature
		Powell's title is actually a pungent metaphor for all these people wasting their lives on activities that add up to nothing -- it is made concrete in the play by a puzzle of George Washington crossing the Delaware which Claire has been working on this puzzle for weeks.
		Powell's diaries, beautifully organized by Powell's biographer Tim Page, are a fascinating record of a writer persevering in the face of constant personal and financial crises.
		While The Diaries of Dawn Powell may seem somewhat specialized for the general reader, the biographical references and the plentitude of observations that are pure gems expand their appeal beyond literary scholars and Powell aficionados.
	www.curtainup.com /powell.html (2891 words)

	AllRefer.com - Dawn Powell (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		She came to New York City in 1918 and settled several years later in Greenwich Village, where she spent most of the rest of her life and became a member of a stellar literary set.
		Powell was well known in the 1940s and 50s, but aside from a devoted cult following she fell into literary obscurity in the decades that followed.
		A revival of interest began in the late 1980s, largely due to enthusiastic promotion of her work by Gore Vidal.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/PowellD.html (266 words)

	Playbill News: Dawn Powell Festival Continues Jan. 19 with Obolensky's Life
		Dawn Powell was born in Ohio in the late 19th century, but, soon after graduating from college, moved to the city which would become her hometown for the remainder of her life—as well as the subject of many of her novels—New York.
		Powell's reputation was resurrected in the '80s, after Gore Vidal wrote an adoring appreciation of her work, calling her "our best comic novelist." In the years following, all of her novels, as well as many short shorts, came back into print.
		Both detailed Powell's loveless childhood, in which she bounced around from relative to relative; a marriage to an alcoholic fellow writer which deteriorated from happiness to an abject stalemate; her battles with her mentally challenged son, JoJo; her many friendships with the literary greats of her day; and her long struggles with money and alcohol.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/67297.html (1025 words)

	Dawn Powell Novels, 1930-1942: Dance Night; Come Back to Sorrento; Turn, Magic Wheel; Angels on Toast; A Time to Be ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		Dawn Powell Novels, 1930-1942: Dance Night; Come Back to Sorrento; Turn, Magic Wheel; Angels on Toast; A Time to Be Born...
		Dawn Powell Novels, 1930-1942: Dance Night; Come Back to Sorrento; Turn, Magic Wheel; Angels on Toast; A Time to Be Born...: Reviews and ratings
		More deeply moving fiction.Dawn Powell was the tirelessly observant chronicler of two very different worlds: the small-town Ohio of her childhood and the sophisticated Manhattan to which she gravitated.
	shopping.msn.com /Reviews/shp/?itemId=1553067 (283 words)

	WOSU Presents Ohioana Authors \| Dawn Powell
		Selections from Powell’s work were read by Kassie Rose, and Act One of her 1931 Broadway comedy Big Night, was read by Bruce Herman, Mandy Fox, and Christina Ritter.
		Dawn Powell was 23 years old when she wrote this letter to girlfriend Charlotte Johnson in 1919.
		Powell struggled with an impaired child, alcoholism, an up-and-down marriage and periods of insolvency.
	www.ohioana-authors.org /powell/purdy.php (871 words)

	Salon Books \| New York finally turns out for Dawn Powell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		The evening's readers included novelist Susan Minot and Tim Page, Powell's modest, persevering biographer and the editor of recently published collections of Powell's letters and journals.
		Novelist Francine Prose picked up the theme by reading Powell's bitterly funny descriptions of her writerly travails -- idiotic reviewers, intransigent publishers, the anxiety of facing an empty page -- with which Prose identified all too well.
		The surprise of the evening came when Doubleday executive editor Gerald Howard, who edits Powell's old buddy Gore Vidal, read from the manuscript of Vidal's forthcoming novel, in which Dawn Powell is a character.
	archive.salon.com /books/log/2000/01/27/powell/index.html (523 words)

	WOSU Presents Ohioana Authors \| Dawn Powell
		Dawn Powell’s eye for paradox may be what made her novels such accurate portrayals of upper-middle-class life in New York and small-town Ohio from the 1920s to the mid-60s.
		Powell believed she depicted life accurately and honestly; others called her writing satire.
		Yet the word used for this unqualifying affection is ‘cynicism.’” She died penniless and, after donating her body to science, was buried in an unmarked grave.
	www.ohioana-authors.org /powell/index.php (284 words)

	Come Back to Sorrento by Dawn Powell at Smarter.com
		One of Powell's early novels, COME BACK TO SORRENTO was originally published in 1932 as THE TENTH MOON. "...Powell never lets the reader lose sight of the pettiness of her heroes.
		Powell's characters...are often hard to like: deluded, vain, tedious, selfish....As her public and reviewers complained, they were not 'significant' people.
		But Powell's prose is significant, like Jane Austen's, both gentle and mocking--tending rather to pity than to hope, especially here." Dawn Powell turns her attention to those certain rare souls who have the secret of finding their lives glamorous and themselves magnificent under the most humble conditions.
	www.smarter.com /come_back_to_sorrento---pd--ch-1--pi-334729.html (328 words)

	Dawn Powell -- Novels 1930-1942 (Library of America) -- Dawn Powell Tim Page
		Yet for decades after her death, Powell's work was out of print, cherished only by a small band of admirers.
		Dawn Powell -- a vital part of literary Greenwich Village from the 1920s through the 1960s -- was the observant chronicler of two very different worlds: the small-town Ohio where she grew up and the sophisticated Manhattan where she lived for nearly fifty years.
		Dance Night (1930), Powell's own favorite among her works, is a surprisingly frank treatment of obsessive longing set in an Ohio factory town during the 1920s.
	www.frontlist.com /detail/1931082014 (382 words)

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