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Dawn Powell

Over the past decade, the works of Dawn Powell (1896-1965) have enjoyed a spectacular revival. Now Tim Page has written the first biography of this brilliant and insightful American author, whose longtime cult following has blossomed into well-deserved general popularity. Powell came to New York City at the age of twenty-one, a gifted and ambitious young woman from small-town Ohio. There she would live for another forty-seven years, but she always managed to maintain the fresh perspective of a "permanent visitor," exalting the multiplicity and sheer sensory overload of her beloved...

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