For other people named Richard Powers, see Richard Powers (disambiguation).
Richard Powers
Powers reading in April 2018
Born
(1957-06-18) June 18, 1957 (age 67) Evanston, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation
Writer, professor of English
Education
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (BA, MA)
Period
1985–present (as writer)
Genre
Literary novels
Website
www.richardpowers.net
Richard Powers (born June 18, 1957) is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. His novel The Echo Maker won the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction.[1][2] He has also won many other awards over the course of his career, including a MacArthur Fellowship. As of 2023, Powers has published thirteen novels and has taught at the University of Illinois and Stanford University. He won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory.
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"National Book Awards – 2006". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-27. (With linked information including essay by Harold Augenbraum from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)
^Andrea Lynn (November 2006). "A Powers-ful Presence". LASNews Magazine. University of Illinois. Retrieved 2006-11-29.
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