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Richard Powers
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OverviewAI-generated
Richard Powers is an American novelist, writer, science fiction writer, and programmer. Born in Evanston, Illinois, in 1957, he is educated at and employed by the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign. He writes in English and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
His notable works include The Echo Maker, The Overstory, Bewilderment, The Time of Our Singing, and Generosity. Powers has received the MacArthur Fellows Program, the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has also been nominated for the Booker Prize, the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and the Arthur C. Clarke Award.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1957
- Works
- 18
Top works
- The Overstory
- The Echo Maker
- Bewilderment
- The Time of Our Singing
- Generosity
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Evanston, Illinois, USA
Known for
- Oprah's Book Club — Self2019
via TMDB
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1957-06-18 ) June 18, 1957 (age 68) , 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
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Richard
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Evanston
- Occupation
- science fiction writer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- science fiction
- Official website
- www.richardpowers.net
- Image
- Richard Powers (author).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1957-06-18
- writing language
- English language
- Commons category
- Richard Powers
- nominated for
- Arthur C. Clarke Award
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Life and work
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