The Diaries of Dawn Powell (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Dawn Powell
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Diary
- Time of Work: 1920-1965
- Principal Characters: Dawn Powell, Joseph “Joe” R. Gousha, Joseph “Jojo” R. Gousha, Jr., Coburn “Coby” Gilman, John Howard Lawson, John Dos Passos, Margaret De Silver
- Genres: Nonfiction, Diary
- Subjects: Family or family life, Authors or writers, Literature, Marriage, Mental illness, Novelists, Disabilities or physically challenged persons, Drama or dramatists
According to an entry in her 1932 diary, Dawn Powell wrote because she had no one to talk to. The accounts of the social life she led and recorded for almost forty years suggests, however, that she had plenty of people to talk to: John Howard Lawson, John Dos Passos, E. E. Cummings, Coby Gilman, Margaret De Silver, and scores of others who inhabited the literary circle of which, for four decades, she was a significant member. Her statement nevertheless identifies one of the demons Powell battled during most of her life; she had a bipolar personality, a manic-depressive tendency that...
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