Time to Be Born

Literature & Fiction

POWELL,DAWN

United States

Ams Pr Inc

First printing. Late novel by the writer whom Gore Vidal called 'one of our most brilliant - certainly most witty - novelists, whose literary reputation continues to grow long after her death; we are catching up to her.' 274 pp.

The Golden Spur

Literary

The Viking Press

Days and nights at Cafe Julien as experienced by its customers and their lives, problems, and futures are given to the reader

Wicked Pavilion

Vintage

Two dubious businessmen attempt to outwit their wives, mistresses, and hangers-on

Angels on Toast

Jonathan Jaimison, a young man from the Midwest, travels to Greenwich Village to discover, using his mother's diaries, which artist, author, or academic is his natural father

Golden Spur

The rediscovery of Dawn Powell is in full swing. Her novels, most of them back in print, now grace the shelves of bookstores across the nation. Tim Page's masterly biography of Powell has helped to generate an enormous amount of publicity and renewed interest in this immensely provocative and insightful writer-including a three-page spread in The New York Times. Terry Teachout, writing in The New York Times Book Review, hailed The Diaries of Dawn Powell, edited by Tim Page, as one of the outstanding literary finds of the last quarter century. This collection of Dawn Powell's letters promises to create yet another wave of excitement and discovery. Written to friends, fans, relatives, and publishers, and to Malcolm Lowry, John Dos Passos, Edmund Wilson, Max Perkins, and Malcolm Cowley, they are rife with Powell's great ability to entertain. This collection will complete the restoration and rehabilitation of one of America's finest literary voices.

The Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Henry Holt and Co.

Selected Letters of Dawn Powell traces a richly talented writer's fifty-two-year journey from her childhood in a small Ohio town to the glitter of Manhattan. Powell was a prolific letter writer, and her correspondence provides an intimate look at the woman about whom The New York Times recently said: "[She] is wittier than Dorothy Parker, dissects the rich better than F. Scott Fitzgerald, is more plaintive than Willa Cather in her evocation of the heartland, and has more supple control of satirical voice than Evelyn Waugh." Living most of her life in Greenwich Village, Powell supported herself as a writer through the Great Depression and two world wars while nursing an autistic son, an alcoholic husband, and her own parade of illnesses. In her correspondence, including gossip-filled letters to such luminaries as Edmund Wilson, John Dos Passos, and the legendary editor Max Perkins, we find the record of a courageous and dramatic woman who produced fifteen novels, ten plays, and more than one hundred stories.

Selected Letters of Dawn Powell : 1913-1965

Holt Paperbacks

The tenth moon

Farrar & Rinehart

Book written by poets and writers of the Caribbean and Latin America and anecdotes about their Haiti days and influence,

Un petit goût de goyave: Poetes, ecrivains et anecdotes (French Edition)

CAPOTE, TRUMAN

LAFERRIÈRE, Dany

Diederich, Bernard

Lowry, Malcolm

Leroy, Felix Morisseau

Bajeux, Jean-Claude

Depeste, Rene

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Three more classics of the Group Theatre finally see publication! The final play of the Group’s first season, Night Over Taos, is Maxwell Anderson’s (Pulitzer Prize Winner for Both Your Houses and the author of the acclaimed Winterset) prose drama. As one of the Group’s few dramas based on actual events, their third play tells of the battle for the formation of the state of New Mexico, and the Mexican freedom fighter who resists the encroaching American attack during the Mexican-American War. In its second year, the Group followed its dramatic indictment of the advertising industry (Lawson’s Success Story) with one of their only comedies. Dawn Powell’s caustic dissection of the 1920’s ‘Mad Men’ has been published in its original version for the first time. Though the Group Theatre changed the ending to make it more uplifting, (and changed the named to Big Night from The Party) we’ve restored Ms. Powell’s intended biting ending. In this play of “take my wife, please,” Ed and Myra Bonney, who have been living beyond their means, are both challenged to see how far they will go to keep up their lifestyle when Myra’s hopeful, old paramour shows up and can offer Ed a huge advertising contract – IF the price is right. While men could write ‘cads’ in the 1930’s, Powell was nearly crucified for writing such unlikable characters. Sidney Kingsley’s Pulitzer Prize Winning Play Men in White was one of the Group’s first huge hits and set the precedent for the modern medical drama. Kingsley’s medical research was remarkable and specific, and that is why the audiences were so taken with this hit drama. Though medicine has changed greatly in 80 years, most of the larger issues in the play are still relevant: government takeover of healthcare, the stress put upon our young medical students, and the corporate business wheeling and dealing needed to keep the hospitals profitable.

The Lost Group Theatre Plays: Vol IV: Men in White, Big Night, & Night Over Taos

Anderson, Maxwell

Kingsley, Sidney

Mulholland, Allie

Dramas & Plays

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