Dawn Powell
Dawn Powell (November 28, 1896 – November 14, 1965) was an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and short story writer. Known for her acerbic prose, "her relative obscurity was likely due to a general distaste for her harsh satiric tone." Nonetheless,
Stella Adler and author
Clifford Odets appeared in one of her plays. Her work was praised by
Robert Benchley in ''
The New Yorker '' and in 1939 she was signed as a
Scribner author where
Maxwell Perkins , famous for his work with many of her contemporaries, including
Ernest Hemingway ,
F. Scott Fitzgerald and
Thomas Wolfe , became her editor. A 1963 nominee for the
National Book Award , she received an
American Academy of Arts and Letters Marjorie Peabody Waite Award for lifetime achievement in literature the following year. A friend to many literary and arts figures of her day, including author
John Dos Passos , critic
Edmund Wilson , and poet
E. E. Cummings , Powell's work received renewed interest after
Gore Vidal praised it in a 1987 editorial for ''
The New York Review of Books ''. Since then, the
Library of America has published two collections of her novels.
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Dawn Powell (November 28, 1896 – November 14, 1965) was an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and short story writer. Known for her acerbic prose, "her relative obscurity was likely due to a general distaste for her harsh satiric tone." Nonetheless, Stella Adler and author Clifford Odets appeared in one of her plays. Her work was praised by Robert Benchley in ''The New Yorker'' and in 1939 she was signed as a Scribner author where Maxwell Perkins, famous for his work with many of her contemporaries, including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe, became her editor. A 1963 nominee for the National Book Award, she received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Marjorie Peabody Waite Award for lifetime achievement in literature the following year. A friend to many literary and arts figures of her day, including author John Dos Passos, critic Edmund Wilson, and poet E. E. Cummings, Powell's work received renewed interest after Gore Vidal praised it in a 1987 editorial for ''The New York Review of Books''. Since then, the Library of America has published two collections of her novels.
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