Richard Powers
1957 – present · b. Evanston
United States
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Biography
Richard Powers 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.
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Awards
- William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2020)No list
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2019)
- Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine (2018)No list
- National Book Award (2006)
- Dos Passos Prize (2003)No list
- Society of American Historians Prize for Historical Fiction (1999)No list
- MacArthur Fellows Program (1989)No list
Notable Works
- The Echo Maker
- Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance
- Galatea 2.2
- Operation Wandering Soul
Education
- University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign
- DeKalb High School
- International School Bangkok
- UIUC College of Media
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