The Selected Letters of Dawn Powell; 1913-1965

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

• ISBN13: 9780805053647
• ISBN10: 0805053646
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 1999-10-19
• Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
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Summary

The rediscovery of Dawn Powell is in full swing. Her novels, most of them back in print, now grace the shelves of bookstores across the nation. Tim Page's masterly biography of Powell has helped to generate an enormous amount of publicity and renewed interest in this immensely provocative and insightful writer-including a three-page spread inThe New York Times. Terry Teachout, writing inThe New York Times Book Review, hailedThe Diaries of Dawn Powell, edited by Tim Page, as one of the outstanding literary finds of the last quarter century. This collection of Dawn Powell's letters promises to create yet another wave of excitement and discovery. Written to friends, fans, relatives, and publishers, and to Malcolm Lowry, John Dos Passos, Edmund Wilson, Max Perkins, and Malcolm Cowley, they are rife with Powell's great ability to entertain. This collection will complete the restoration and rehabilitation of one of America's finest literary voices.

Author Biography

Tim Page is the artistic advisor and creative chair for the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Time Line	xiii
Country Girl, 1913--1918	3	(26)
New York Youth, 1918--1931	29	(50)
9 East Tenth Street (And Hollywood), 1932--1942	79	(40)
35 East Ninth Street, 1943--1950	119	(62)
Paris, 1950--1951	181	(22)
35 East Ninth Street, 1951--1958	203	(56)
The Last Years, 1958--1965	259	(94)
Acknowledgments	353	(4)
Index	357