![]() From the 1920s on, nearly everyone who met her thought her the funniest woman they had ever known, and many (among them John Dos Passos and Edmund Wilson) considered her a social satirist of the first order. ![]() She knew whereof she spoke.Ĭoming to New York at 22 from a miserable Ohio childhood, armed only with courage and ambition, she became known as a good-time drinker and a prodigious wit. ![]() and after that the nervous, weary effort to pick up and begin again after another disappointment." Powell was in her forties at the time, and had been writing for 20 years. As the day approaches, I look at the book section and think with a sudden horror that this is the last Sunday I will be able to look at a book review without sick misgiving-no review, bad review, or patronizing review. In 1940, a week before the publication of her novel Angels on Toast, Dawn Powell wrote in her diary: "A new book coming out no longer rouses any hope. ![]()
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