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THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT ALSO TO LOOK AT KIP FENN, A MAJOR NOVEL ABOUT THE 21st CENTURY - freely available on this site Powell, Dawn ___ 1897-1965 ___ American ___ writer BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY Born in Mount Gilead, Ohio, Powell ran away from an abusive stepmother when only 12, and was then brought up by an aunt. She studied at Lake Erie College, where she became involved in student theatre and journalism. In 1918, she moved to New York City, taking up various jobs while writing freelance articles and stories. She married Joseph Gousha, a poet and businessman, settled in Greenwich Village, and had one son called JoJo. During a life, somewhat dogged by financial problems, Gousha's drinking and difficulties with Jojo, she wrote 16 novels (such as 'Dance Night', 'Turn, Magic Wheel' and 'The Locusts Have No King'), nine plays and many short stories. Although after her death, she fell out of favour, Gore Vidal has been an enthusiastic promoter of her work. When her diaries were published in 1995, they were immediately praised by the literary establishment. One biography link DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS 1931-1965 ___ domestic literary society family self people WEB TEXT LINKS several extracts many extracts ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS Columbia University Rare Books and Manuscript Library ___ possibly SOME PUBLISHED TITLES The Diaries of Dawn Powell 1931-1965 May 2005 THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS Please email if you have any corrections, additions or comments.

IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS: 1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.

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