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Dawn Powell


Born
in The United States
November 28, 1896

Died
November 14, 1965

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Genre
Literature & Fiction


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.

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Average rating: 3.92 · 3,834 ratings · 478 reviews · 27 distinct works • Similar authors
A Time to Be Born
3.93 avg rating — 639 ratings — published 1942 — 9 editions
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The Wicked Pavilion
3.99 avg rating — 408 ratings — published 1954 — 11 editions
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The Locusts Have No King
3.98 avg rating — 391 ratings — published 1948 — 10 editions
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Turn, Magic Wheel
3.91 avg rating — 348 ratings — published 1936 — 9 editions
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My Home is Far Away
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Angels on Toast
3.85 avg rating — 267 ratings — published 1940 — 7 editions
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The Golden Spur
3.92 avg rating — 230 ratings — published 1962 — 8 editions
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Dance Night
3.93 avg rating — 181 ratings — published 1930
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Selected Letters, 1913-1965
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Quotes 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.”
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“Hold fast to whatever fragments of love that exist, for sometimes a mosaic is more beautiful than an unbroken pattern.”
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“All Americans come from Ohio originally, if only briefly.”
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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
 
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Henry James and Virginia Woolf
 
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I prefer a medley of those others, but omitting H.J.
 
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Henry James and nothing but Henry James
 
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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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Henry James and Isaac Asimov
 
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