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Diaries
- Woggs Diary 1915
- Camp Caho Diary 1916
- 1920 Diary
- 1920-1942 Diaries
- 1925 Diary
- 1926 Diary
- 1927 Diary
- 1930 Diary
- 1931 Diary
- 1932 Diary
- 1933 Diary
- 1934 Diary
- 1935 Diary
- 1936 Diary
- 1937 Diary
- 1938 Diary
- 1939 Diary
- 1940 Diary
- 1941 Diary
- 1942 Diary
- 1943 Diary
- 1943-1953 Diaries
- 1944 Diary
- 1945 Diary
- 1946 Diary
- 1947 Diary
- 1948 Diary
- 1949 Diary
- 1950 Diary
- 1951 Diary
- 1952 Diary
- 1953 Diary
- 1954 Diary
- 1954-1965 Diaries
- 1955 Diary
- 1956 Diary
- 1957 Diary
- 1958 Diary
- 1959 Diary
- 1960 Diary
- 1961 Diary
- 1962 Diary
- 1963 Diary
- 1964 Diary
- 1965 Day Book Diary
- 1965 Diary
Links
- Auctioning Dawn Powell’s Diaries on the Web – NYTimes.com
- Book News: Peregrinations, Motivations : The New Yorker
- Columbia Acquires Dawn Powell Archives – NYTimes.com
- Dawn Powell – Home Page – presented by The Library of America
- Dawn Powell's Diaries For Sale – The Fine Books Blo
- How Dawn Powell can save your life
- Novelist Dawn Powell's 43 diaries up for sale
- The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965 (Paperback)
Pages
1940 Diary
Cover 1940 Diary
Powell begins what will become “A Time to Be Born.” The last year before America enters World War II. Amusing vignettes about Tanaquil LeClercq as a ten-year-old diva, Ernest Hemingway, and Gerald and Sara Murphy. “Angels on Toast” is published and dedicated to her new editor, Maxwell Perkins.
1940 Diary excerpt
Powell was already beginning to plot “A Time to Be Born,” as a roman a clef about Clare Boothe Luce, here called by her maiden name Brokaw.