This scathing 'comedy of manners' set in the 1940s 'steers us through the lives of women who come...

Dawn Powell had a brilliant mind anda keen wit and her humor was never at a finer pitch than in h...

For decades after her death, Dawn Powell's work was out of print, cherished by a small band of ad...

The 'Wicked Pavilion” of the title is the Café Julien, where everybody who is anybody goes to rec...

Everyone in Dawn Powell's New York satire Angels on Toast is on the make: Lou Donovan, the entrep...

Dennis Orphen, in writing a novel, has stolen the life story of his friend, EffieCallingham, the ...

My Home is Far Away is the most precisely autobiographical of Powell's fifteen novels.In this fam...

Set against an atmospheric backdrop of New York City in the months just before America' s entry i...

She Walks in Beauty recounts the adolescence of two sisters who live in a railroad station boardi...

A blistering 'comedy of manners' (The New York Times),A Time to Be Born scrutinizes the ambitions...

A coming-of-age story of two sisters living in their grandmother's boarding house in a small Ohio...