Gender: Female
Pronunciation: D AO N P AA W EH L
Dawn Powell was an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and short story writer. Known for her acid-tongued prose, "her relative obscurity was likely due to a general distaste for her harsh satiric tone." Nonetheless, Stella Adler and author Clifford Odets appeared in one of her plays. Her work was praised by Robert Benchley in The New Yorker and in 1939 she was signed as a Scribner author where Maxwell Perkins, famous for his work with many of her contemporaries, including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe, became her editor. A 1963 nominee for the National Book Award, she received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Marjorie Peabody Waite Award for lifetime achievement in literature the following year. A friend to many literary and arts figures of her day, including author John Dos Passos, critic Edmund Wilson, and poet E.E. Cummings, Powell's work received renewed interest after Gore Vidal praised it in an 1987 editorial for The New York Review of Books. Since then, the Library of America has published two collections of her novels.
Source: Wikipedia | Last updated on May 2, 2024
On the name Dawn Powell, Dawn means Daybreak, Awakening, Dawn, Sun Arising. Powell means Surname Related to Paul, Small, Son of Howell.
The name Dawn Powell is often used as a Female name and is mostly used as a First Name.
Dawn is commonly found in United States of America, United Kingdom, South Africa, and 78 more countries.
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ARPAbet Phonetic Pronunciation: D AO N P AA W EH L
D: Pronounce as in "dog" (D AO G)
AO: Pronounce as in "thought" (TH AO T)
N: Pronounce as in "no" (N OW)
P: Pronounce as in "pig" (P IH G)
AA: Pronounce as in "father" (AA F TH ER)
W: Pronounce as in "we" (W IY)
EH: Pronounce as in "red" (R EH D)
L: Pronounce as in "let" (L EH T)
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At NamesLook, the name Dawn is recorded 41,343 times globally, ranking it as the 1,617th most common name worldwide.
Dawn is most prevalent in United States of America, with 19,031 occurrences, making it the 291th most popular name in the country.
In United Kingdom, the name Dawn is found among 1 in every 36 people, showcasing its highest frequency there.
| Country | Rank | Frequency |
|---|---|---|
| United States of America | #291 | 1 : 95 |
| United Kingdom | #151 | 1 : 36 |
| South Africa | #1,199 | 1 : 1,311 |
| Canada | #326 | 1 : 213 |
| Singapore | #659 | 1 : 964 |
| Ireland | #427 | 1 : 166 |
| Jamaica | #204 | 1 : 291 |
| Hong Kong | #1,333 | 1 : 1,992 |
| Costa Rica | #1,104 | 1 : 790 |
| France | #7,522 | 1 : 8,871 |
This chart displays the ranking of the name Dawn from 1980 to 2023, based on the most recent data from the U.S. Social Security Administration.
Dawn Powell was an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and short story writer. Known for her acid-tongued prose, "her relative obscurity was likely due to a general distaste for her harsh satiric tone." Nonetheless, Stella Adler and author Clifford Odets appeared in one of her plays. Her work was praised by Robert Benchley in The New Yorker and in 1939 she was signed as a Scribner author where Maxwell Perkins, famous for his work with many of her contemporaries, including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe, became her editor. A 1963 nominee for the National Book Award, she received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Marjorie Peabody Waite Award for lifetime achievement in literature the following year. A friend to many literary and arts figures of her day, including author John Dos Passos, critic Edmund Wilson, and poet E.E. Cummings, Powell's work received renewed interest after Gore Vidal praised it in an 1987 editorial for The New York Review of Books. Since then, the Library of America has published two collections of her novels.
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