Books written by Dawn Powell
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Novels: 1930-1942
Novels: 1930-1942
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Turn, Magic Wheel
Now he would not hear firsthand how Callingham behaved, he would not hear details of the hunter's return for checking up on his own artistic intuition, he might never meet Callingham and be able to attack him for the way he handled the ...
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The Lost Group Theatre Plays: Vol IV: Men in White, Big Night, and Night Over Taos
The final play of the Group's first season, Night Over Taos, is Maxwell Anderson's (Pulitzer Prize Winner for Both Your Houses and the author of the acclaimed Winterset) prose drama.
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The Locusts Have No King
NO ONE HAS SATIRIZED New York society quite like Dawn Powell, and in this classic novel she turns her sharp eye and stinging wit on the literary world, and "identifies every sort of publishing type with the patience of a pathologist ...
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Can't Catch Me!
Can't Catch Me!
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The Wicked Pavilion
The climax of this mercilessly funny novel comes with a party which, remarked Gore Vidal, “resembles Proust’s last roundup,” and where one of the partygoers observes, “There are some people here who have been dead twenty years.” ...
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Dawn Powell: Novels 1944-1962 (LOA #127): My Home Is Far Away / The Locusts Have No King / The Wicked...
American literature has known few writers capable of the comic élan and full-bodied portraiture that abound in the novels of Dawn Powell. Yet for decades after her death, Powell’s work...
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My Home is Far Away
My Home is Far Away is the most precisely autobiographical of Powell’s fifteen novels.
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The Golden Spur
IF A YOUNG MAN finds his own father inconveniently ordinary, can he choose another? Jonathan Jaimison, the engagingly amoral hero, comes to New York from Silver City, Ohio for exactly...
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The Bride's House
The Bride's House is the story of a woman who loves two men but finds happiness with neither. Sophie is eager for her marriage to the stable Lynn, believing he...
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Dance Night
Observing all are the novel's two young protagonists, Morry, who dreams of becoming an architect and developer, and Jen, an unsentimental orphan of fourteen who, abandoned by her mother, dreams of escape.
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Angels on Toast
Everyone in Dawn Powell's New York satire Angels on Toast is on the make: Lou Donovan, the entrepeneur who ricochets frantically between his well-connected current wife, his disreputable ex, and his dangerously greedy mistress; Trina ...
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Dawn Powell at Her Best
Includes two novels and nine short stories with cynical, romantic, and humorous themes.
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Come Back to Sorrento
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED as "The Tenth Moon," "Come Back to Sorrento" is the second of Powell's "Ohio novels" to be re-issued in paperback. Here Powell turns her attention to those certain...
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A Time to Be Born
At the center of the story are a wealthy, self-involved newspaper publisher and his scheming, novelist wife, Amanda Keeler.
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The Story of a Country Boy
"Christopher Bennett grew up ambitious, bright, and hardworking on an Ohio farm. His first wage-earning job was in a foundry. An imposing physical specimen, a World War I volunteer, and...
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The Diaries of Dawn Powell, 1931-1965
When Dawn Powell died thirty years ago she left a shelf of books and some impassioned fans. The novels, plays, and stories that won Powell a unique reputation in American...
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The Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965
Selected Letters of Dawn Powell traces a richly talented writer's fifty-two-year journey from her childhood in a small Ohio town to the glitter of Manhattan.
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Angels on Toast
Everyone in Dawn Powell's New York satire Angels on Toast is on the make: Lou Donovan, the entrepeneur who ricochets frantically between his well-connected current wife, his disreputable ex, and...
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Turn, Magic Wheel
Dennis Orphen, in writing a novel, has stolen the life story of his friend, Effie Callingham, the former wife of a famous, Hemingway-like novelist, Andrew Callingham. Orphen’s betrayal is not...