Steerforth Press A time to be born, paperback/dawn powell

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Set against an atmospheric backdrop of New York City in the months just before America's entry into World War II, A Time To Be Born is a scathing and hilarious study of cynical New Yorkers stalking each other for various selfish ends.

At the center of the story are a wealthy, self-involved newspaper publisher and his scheming, novelist wife, Amanda Keeler.

Powell always denied that Amanda Keeler was based upon the real-life Clare Boothe Luce, until years later when she discovered a memo she'd written to herself in 1939 that said, Why not do a novel on Clare Luce? Which prompted Powell to write in her diary Who can I believe? Me or myself?About the Author: When Dawn Powell died in 1965, virtually all her books were out of print.

Not a single historical survey of American literature mentioned her, even in passing.

And so she slept, seemingly destined to be forgotten - or, to put it more exactly, never to be remembered.

How things have changed! Numerous novels by Dawn Powell are currently available, along with her diaries and short stories.

She has joined the Library of America, admitted to the illustrious company of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Adams, Frederick Douglass, and Edith Wharton.

She is taught in college and read with delight on vacation.

For the contemporary poet and novelist Lisa Zeidner, writing in The New York Times Book Review, Powell 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 a more supple control of satirical voice than Evelyn Waugh.

For his part, Gore Vidal offered a simple reason for Powell's sudden popularity in the early Twentieth Century: We are catching up to her.

Dawn Powell was born in Mt.

Gilead, Ohio, on November 28, 1896, the second of three daughters.

Her father was a traveling salesman, and her mother died a few days after Dawn turned seven.

After enduring great cruelty at the hands of her stepmother, Dawn ran away at.