The Selected Letters of Dawn Powell; 1913-1965

by Dawn Powell; Edited and with an Introduction by Tim Page

• ISBN13: 9780805065053
• ISBN10: 0805065059
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Holt Paperbacks

Summary

Selected Letters of Dawn Powelltraces a richly talented writer's fifty-two-year journey from her childhood in a small Ohio town to the glitter of Manhattan. Powell was a prolific letter writer, and her correspondence provides an intimate look at the woman about whomThe New York Timesrecently said: "[She] is wittier than Dorothy Parker, dissects the rich better than F. Scott Fitzgerald, is more plaintive than Willa Cather in her evocation of the heartland, and has more supple control of satirical voice than Evelyn Waugh." Living most of her life in Greenwich Village, Powell supported herself as a writer through the Great Depression and two world wars while nursing an autistic son, an alcoholic husband, and her own parade of illnesses. In her correspondence, including gossip-filled letters to such luminaries as Edmund Wilson, John Dos Passos, and the legendary editor Max Perkins, we find the record of a courageous and dramatic woman who produced fifteen novels, ten plays, and more than one hundred stories.

Author Biography

Tim Page is the author of Dawn Powell: A Biography and editor of Dawn Powell at Her Best and The Diaries of Dawn Powell. Formerly the chief music critic for The Washington Post, he is now the artistic advisor and creative chair for the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Time Line	p. xiii
Country Girl, 1913-1918	p. 3
New York Youth, 1918-1931	p. 29
9 East Tenth Street (and Hollywood), 1932-1942	p. 79
35 East Ninth Street, 1943-1950	p. 119
Paris, 1950-1951	p. 181
35 East Ninth Street, 1951-1958	p. 203
The Last Years, 1958-1965	p. 259
Acknowledgments	p. 353
Index	p. 357
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