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Dawn Powell


Born
in Mount Gilead, Ohio, The United States
November 28, 1896

Died
November 14, 1965

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Genre
Literature & Fiction


Dawn Powell was an American writer of satirical novels and stories that manage to be barbed and sensitive at the same time.

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Average rating: 3.92 · 5,502 ratings · 788 reviews · 43 distinct works • Similar authors
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The Locusts Have No King
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Novels, 1930-1942: Dance Ni...
3.74 avg rating — 410 ratings — published 1930 — 9 editions
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Angels on Toast
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3.92 avg rating — 329 ratings — published 1962 — 20 editions
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3.88 avg rating — 266 ratings — published 1930 — 8 editions
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Selected Letters, 1913-1965
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“Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.”
― Dawn Powell
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“Hold fast to whatever fragments of love that exist, for sometimes a mosaic is more beautiful than an unbroken pattern.”
― Dawn Powell
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“All Americans come from Ohio originally, if only briefly.”
― Dawn Powell
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What to read, what to read--should it be 6 novels by Henry James for 2018 (alternating every month), or 3 by Henry James and 3 by...?

Henry James and Joseph Conrad
 
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Henry James and Edith Wharton
 
  2 votes 22.2%

Henry James and nothing but Henry James
 
  1 vote 11.1%

Henry James and Virginia Woolf
 
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Henry James and Isaac Asimov
 
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I prefer a medley of those others, but omitting H.J.
 
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Henry James and Dawn Powell
 
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Henry James and a medley of other writers, which, if we choose this option, may lead to utter chaos and imploded skulls
 
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