Richard Powers
1957
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photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
genre: science fiction
country of citizenship: United States of America
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, DeKalb High School, International School Bangkok, UIUC College of Media
occupation: novelist, writer, science fiction writer
award received: MacArthur Fellows Program, National Book Award for Fiction, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Society of American Historians Prize for Historical Fiction
official 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. 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. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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