A gorgeous new paperback of Dawn Powell's razor-sharp comedy of manners, following a glittering t...

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

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...

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

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...