1956 Diary

Cover 1956 Diary

Cover 1956 Diary

Powell hard at work on “A Cage for Lovers.” Fawcett publishes Powell’s own hastily rewritten abridgement of “Angels on Toast” in paperback; it is called “A Man’s Affair.”

1956 Diary excerpt A P02 37

1956 Diary excerpt A P02 37

A previously unpublished entry about Powell’s continuing struggles with her son Jojo.

1956 Diary excerpt B P02 28

1956 Diary excerpt B P02 28

Powell revisits Long Island, where the family once kept a house out near Port Jefferson. Unedited entry on Francoise Sagan, Simone de Beauvoir, and the novel as an art form.