Dawn Powell





Dawn Powell

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born
in The United States
December 13, 1901

died
November 14, 1965

gender
female

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About this author

Dawn Powell (November 28, 1896 – November 14, 1965) was an American writer of satirical novels and stories that manage to be barbed and sensitive at the same time.



Average rating: 3.98 · 1,611 ratings · 218 reviews · 25 distinct works · Similar authors
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More books by Dawn Powell…
“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

“Hold fast to whatever fragments of love that exist, for sometimes a mosaic is more beautiful than an unbroken pattern.”
Dawn Powell

“All Americans come from Ohio originally, if only briefly.”
Dawn Powell

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