Dawn Powell is today recognized as one of the wittiest and most worldly American novelists of the past century, but her career was one long exercise in commercial futility despite having some of the best editors and publishers — Maxwell Perkins and Scribner’s, for example — in her corner. She died in near poverty and relative obscurity, and it was only through the posthumous efforts of
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