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Dawn Powell
Dawn Powell (November 28, 1896 – November 14, 1965) was an American writer of novels and stories.
==Biography==
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.〔Her ''New York Times'' obituary, November 16, 1965, lists her birth date as November 28, 1897. The Ohio, Births and Christenings Index in Ancestry.com lists her full name as "Marthy Dawn Powell," and her birth date as September 28, 1896. Other U.S. Census data is more vague.〕 After her mother died when Powell was seven, she lived with a series of relatives around the state. Her father remarried, 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 productions, and edited the college newspaper. After graduation, she moved to Manhattan. Most of her subsequent writing would deal either with life in small Midwestern towns, or with the lives of people transplanted to New York City from such towns.
On November 20, 1920, she married Joseph Gousha, an aspiring poet and advertising copy-writer. In 1921, the couple had their only child, Joseph R. Gousha Jr. ("Jojo"), who was born mentally impaired and later developed autism. Her husband abandoned poetry for the steady work of advertising, and the family moved to Greenwich Village, which remained her home base for the rest of her life. The Village served as both inspiration and backdrop for most of her writing; some of the key locations in her fiction remain standing today.〔"Still Living in Dawn Powell's Village," ''Off the Grid,'' Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, December 10, 2013.〕
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