Publication of “My Home Is Far Away.” Powell was deeply hurt by Edmund Wilson’s mixed review in The New Yorker. Powell is finishing “My Home Is Far Away”; “Perkins” is Max Perkins, who also edited Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Thomas Wolfe.
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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)
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1943 Diary
Powell’s long friendship with Edmund Wilson deepens and there are several stories about him in this diary. Powell evaluates her own work: “Reading Whither I was horrified at how completely hopeless and utterly devoid of promise it was—far worse than what I had written at 13. On the other hand a re-reading of Dance Night […]