Richard Powers
American novelist (born 1957)
69 years oldGeminiUnited States
Biography
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.
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Career highlights
Employers / organisations
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Notable works
- Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance
- The Echo Maker
- Galatea 2.2
- Operation Wandering Soul
Genres
- science fiction
Awards & honours (7)
- MacArthur Fellows Program
- National Book Award
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
- William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- Society of American Historians Prize for Historical Fiction
- Dos Passos Prize
- Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine
Quick answers about Richard Powers
- How old is Richard Powers?
- Richard Powers is 69 years old (born June 18, 1957).
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- Richard Powers was born on June 18, 1957.
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- Richard Powers was born in Evanston.
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- Richard Powers's zodiac sign is Gemini.
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- Richard Powers is a citizen of United States.
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- Richard Powers is known as novelist, writer, science fiction writer, programmer.
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