1896 - 1965
Dawn Powell American Writer
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Details
| First Name |
Dawn
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| Last Name |
Powell
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| Birthday |
28th November, 1896
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| Birthplace |
Mount Gilead, Ohio, U.S.
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| Died |
14th November, 1965
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| Place of Death |
New York City
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| Zodiac Sign |
Sagittarius
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| Nationality |
American
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| Occupation Text |
Writer
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| Occupation |
Writer
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| Music Genre (Text) |
Dark social satire
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Dawn Powell (Nov. 28, 1896 – Nov. 14, 1965) was an award-winning novelist, playwright, screenwriter and short story writer. Known for her acid-tongued 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 Hemingway, 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. Friend to many literary and arts figures of her day, including author John Dos Pasos, critic Edmund Wilson and poet E.E. Cummings, her work received renewed interest after Gore Vidal praised it in an 1987 editorial for the New York Review of Books. Since then, the Library of America has published two collections of her novels.
