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

'I believe in the flapper as an artist in her particular field, the art of being - being young, b...

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

A blistering 'comedy of manners' (The New York Times),A Time to Be Born scrutinizes the ambitions...

Everyone in Dawn Powell's New York satire Angels on Toast is on the make: Lou Donovan, the entrep...

She Walks in Beauty recounts the adolescence of two sisters who live in a railroad station boardi...

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...

A coming-of-age story of two sisters living in their grandmother's boarding house in a small Ohio...

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