Richard Powers
Richard Powers | |
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Powers reading in April 2018 | |
| Born | June 18, 1957 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 |
| Parents | Richard Franklin Powers and Donna (Belik) Powers |
| Website | |
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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. He has also won many other awards over the course of his career, including a MacArthur Fellowship. As of 2024, Powers has published fourteen novels and has taught at the University of Illinois and Stanford University. He won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory.