Дон Пауэл — об авторе
- Родилась: 28 ноября 1896 г. , Mount Gilead, Ohio, USA
- Умерла: 14 ноября 1965 г. , New York City
Биография — Дон Пауэл
Powell was born in Mount Gilead, Ohio, a village 45 miles north of Columbus and the county seat of Morrow County. Powell regularly gave her birth year as 1897 but primary documents support the earlier date. After her mother died when Powell was seven, she lived with a series of relatives around the state. Her father re-married, but his second wife was harsh and abusive toward the children; when her stepmother destroyed her notebooks and diaries, she ran away to live with an aunt, who encouraged her creative work. Powell later gave her childhood fictional form in the novel My Home Is Far Away (1944).
At Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio, she wrote stories and plays, acted in college…
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Библиография
She had a prodigious output, producing hundreds of short stories, ten plays, a dozen novels, and an extended diary starting in 1931. Her writings, however, never generated enough money to live off of. Throughout her life, she supported herself with various jobs, including freelance writer, extra in silent films, Hollywood screenwriter, book reviewer, and radio personality. Her play Walking Down Broadway was filmed as Hello, Sister! (1933), co-written and co-directed by Erich von Stroheim.
Her novel Whither was published in 1925, but she always described She Walks in Beauty (1928) as her first. Her favorite of her own novels, Dance Night, came out in 1930. The early work received uneven…
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When Powell died, virtually all of her novels were out of print. Her posthumous champions included Matthew Josephson, Gore Vidal,[5] and especially Tim Page, who joined forces with her family to free her manuscripts, diaries, and copyrights from her original executrix. The result was a revival in the late 1990s, when most of Powell's books were made available once more. Her papers are now at the Columbia University Rare Books and Manuscripts Library in her beloved New York.
She is referenced in the Gilmore Girls episode Help Wanted, wherein Rory expresses sadness over her relative obscurity. Powell is also referenced in the novel, "A Collection of Beauties at the Height of Their Popularity"…
