Born: 28-Nov-1897
Birthplace: Mount Gilead, OH
Died: 14-Nov-1965
Location of death: New York City
Cause of death: Cancer - unspecified

Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Novelist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: She Walks In Beauty

Mother: (d. 1903)
Husband: Joseph Gousha (advertising copywriter, m. 1920, one daughter)
Daughter: Jojo (b. 1921)

    University: Lake Erie College, Painesville, OH

Author of books:
Whither (1925, novel)
She Walks In Beauty (1928, novel)
The Bride's House (1929, novel)
Dance Night (1930, novel)
The Tenth Moon (1932, novel)
The Story of a Country Boy (1934, novel)
Turn, Magic Wheel (1936, novel)
The Happy Island (1938, novel)
Angels on Toast (1940, novel)
A Time To Be Born (1942, novel)
My Home Is Far Away (1944, novel)
The Locusts Have No King (1948, novel)
Sunday, Monday and Always (1952, short stories)
The Wicked Pavilion (1954, novel)
A Man's Affair (1956, novel, based on Angels on Toast)
A Cage for Lovers (1957, novel)
The Golden Spur (1962, novel)
The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965 (1995, journal)
Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 (1999, letters)

Wrote plays:
Jig-Saw: A Comedy (1934)
The Lion and the Lizard (1934)
Red Dress (1937)

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