Publication of “My Home Is Far Away.” Powell was deeply hurt by Edmund Wilson’s mixed review in The New Yorker. Powell is finishing “My Home Is Far Away”; “Perkins” is Max Perkins, who also edited Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Thomas Wolfe.
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- Woggs Diary 1915
- The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1915-1965
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- Who was Dawn Powell?
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Links
- Auctioning Dawn Powell’s Diaries on the Web – NYTimes.com
- Book News: Peregrinations, Motivations : The New Yorker
- Columbia Acquires Dawn Powell Archives – NYTimes.com
- Dawn Powell – Home Page – presented by The Library of America
- Dawn Powell's Diaries For Sale – The Fine Books Blo
- How Dawn Powell can save your life
- Novelist Dawn Powell's 43 diaries up for sale
- The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965 (Paperback)
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Who was Dawn Powell?
1896 Born in family home at 53 West North Street in Mt. Gilead, Ohio, on November 28, the second of three daughters of Roy King Powell and Hattie Sherman Powell. (In later years Powell habitually gives her birth year as 1897. Father, b. August 24, 1869, and mother, b. March 24, 1872, are both from […]