Dawn Powell's Wikipedia Page: When Yin Spawns Yang

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I know I have the name of a failed stripper but sometimes I use it to my advantage.   
Dawn Powell

From Wikipedia: 

Dawn Powell was born in Mount Gilead, Ohio, a village 45 miles north of Columbus and the county seat of Morrow County...After her mother died when Powell was seven, she lived with a series of relatives around the state. Her father re-married, but his second wife was harsh and abusive toward the children. When her stepmother destroyed her notebooks and diaries, she ran away...

Had that evil stepmother not inspired Dawn to run away,  Ms. Powell's vast literary output  would have been neutered. Ms. Powell might have had the same literary significance as Danielle Steele.

There is unspoken gratitude for that evil stepmother.

Without her diabolical parenting, NONE of the following statements
would have been true about Ms. Powell:

Ernest Hemingway called Dawn Powell his  "favorite living writer."

She is wittier than Dorothy Parker, dissects the rich better than F. Scott Fitzgerald.
New York Times

Dawn Powell can save your life.
Salon.com

Dawn Powell is  the literary Godmother of Gore Vidal  who was one of the most
visible intellectuals and novelists of the 20th Century.

Gore Vidal wrote a literary life-saving essay entitled  Dawn Powell: The American Writer.

After running away from home,  Dawn Powell's diaries  –in her own handwriting–

exist in forty-volumes covering the years 1915-1965. They are currently

in the  Rare Book & Manuscript Library of Columbia University. 

I have written forty-eight pages about Dawn Powell.

The GoodFather of Math

But the next Dawn Powell is  here.

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