Powell’s second residency at Yaddo leads to new friendships with Hanna Green and John Cheever. Her old friend Margaret de Silver starts a trust fund for Powell and she has her own apartment for the first time in almost two years. Work on “The Golden Spur” continues. Gossip from Yaddo.
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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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1955 Diary
Powell begins work on her atypical French novel “A Cage for Lovers” at Yaddo. She meets Jacqueline Miller (later Rice), who would become her executrix. Powell is off to Yaddo, but not before finishing one of her many book reviews for the New York Post.