David Barnett reports on the life and work of author Dawn owell. Her career as a writer spans four decades, yet she is little known. In 987, Gore Vidal, writing in the New York Review of Books, called her "..our est comic novelist. She should have been as widely read as Hemingway or the arly Fitzgerald." Primarily because she is a witty female writer on New York hemes, she has been compared to and overshadowed by Dorothy Parker.
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