Dawn Powell

(1896 - 1965)

Born in Ohio, Dawn Powell came to New York City in 1918 and settled several years later in Greenwich Village, where she spent most of the rest of her life as a member the local literary set. A well-known figure in the 1940s and ’50s, Powell fell into literary obscurity in the decades that followed, though her work saw a revival of interest in the 1980s due to its enthusiastic promotion by Gore Vidal. Among her best-known works are My Home Is Far Away, published in 1944, and The Locusts Have No King, published in 1948.