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Check for Availabilityout of stock. Click on the button below to search for this title in other formats.  Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Selected Letters of Dawn Powell traces 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 whom The New York Times recently 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. About the AuthorTim 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. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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