Why Is She Not Better Known?

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  In the NEW YORK TIMES, Lisa Zeidner asked:

  So why is she not better known?
  You could accept Tim Page's explanation,
  in "Dawn Powell: A Biography," that her
"dark, mordant attitude toward the world . . . rankled."

  She was simply too unsparing in her satire,
  offending the very people who might embrace her.

  As Powell wrote in her diary:
"I think my great handicap and strongest slavery
  is my insistence on freedom. I require it."

                                                                                                     Before ever reading 

a Dawn Powell novel,

I read this quote from Ms. Zeidner:

Powell is wittier than Dorothy Parker,

dissects the rich better than F. Scott Fitzgerald

When I first read that statement–

less than two years ago,

I would have sworn I smelled horse manure.

It cannot be true,

I thought, at that time.

Today, all I can say is...

Ms. Zeidner, thanks for proving me wrong!

You are 100% correct

But I will never stop

reading & re-reading

F. Scott Fitzgerald.

NOT reading Fitzgerald

is very bad for my mental health.

Scott Fitzgerald 
(1896-1940)

My alleged mental health is restored by reading
such articles as this one:

F. Scott Fitzgerald Estate Wondering Why The Hell 

Ken Burns Hasn’t Come Knocking Yet

 

 

The next Fitzgerald page is here.

  The next Powell page is there.

Dawn Powell
(1896-1965)

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