Author

Contributions

  • Page, Tim, 1954- - Contributor

Publication

1999 - Henry Holt, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

93,250 words, Guess

Page Count

373 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Goodreads1372222
  • LibraryThing35302

Classifications

  • DDC813/.52
  • LCCPS3531.O936 Z48 1999

Description

"Selected Letters of Dawn Powell, 1913-1965 traces a writer's fifty-two-year journey from her childhood in a small Ohio town to the glitter of Manhattan cosmopolitan life."--BOOK JACKET. "Living most of her life in Greenwich Village, Powell supported herself as a writer through the Depression and two world wars while nursing an autistic son, an alcoholic husband, and her own parade of illnesses. In her correspondence we find the record of a life that produced fifteen novels, ten plays, and more than one hundred stories."--BOOK JACKET. "Letters to such luminaries as Edmund Wilson, John Dos Passos, and the legendary editor Max Perkins are filled with gossip and literary commentary; they also provide and in-depth look at Powell's own writing-in-progress and the events and ideas that obsessed her."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Genres

  • Correspondence.

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