Dawn Powell’s New York — An Invitation to Lunch

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Dawn Powell’s New York — An Invitation to Lunch

By Stuart Mitchner…nothing will cut New York but a diamond. It should be crystal in quality, sharp as the skyline and relentlessly true.—Dawn Powell (1897-1965), from The DiariesWhen Dawn Powell invited me to lunch, I had no idea that she was the author of a dozen novels. All I knew was that she’d just reviewed my first book in the New York Post under the head “Young But Not Beat.” I was 20. She was around 60. It wasn’t until the 1990s that her …