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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 . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He has also won many other awards over the course of his career, including a MacArthur Fellowship .
The Overstory is a novel by American author Richard Powers, published in 2018 by W. W. Norton & Company.The book follows nine Americans whose unique life experiences with trees bring them together to address the destruction of forests.
Richard M. Powers (February 24, 1921 – March 9, 1996) was an American science fiction and fantasy fiction illustrator. He was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2008 [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame in 2016.
1985 Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance, HarperCollins ISBN 0-688-04201-5; 1988 Prisoner's Dilemma, McGraw Hill ISBN 0-07-050612-4; 1991 The Gold Bug Variations, HarperCollins ISBN 0-688-09891-6
Bewilderment is a 2021 novel by Richard Powers, published on September 21, 2021, by W. W. Norton & Company. [1] It is Powers' thirteenth novel, his first since winning the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Overstory (2018). [2] The novel was shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize.
Powers's later novel Galatea 2.2, published in 1995, uses the first person perspective of semifictional narrator Richard Powers to describe to a large extent the conditions under which Powers wrote Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance.
Galatea 2.2 is a 1995 pseudo-autobiographical novel by American writer Richard Powers and a contemporary reworking of the Pygmalion myth. [1] The book's narrator shares the same name as Powers, with the book referencing events and books in the author's life while mentioning other events that may or may not be based upon Powers' life.
The Time of Our Singing (2003) is a novel by American writer Richard Powers.It tells the story of two brothers, Jonah and Joseph Strom, who are involved in music, dealing heavily with issues of prejudice.