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American novelist (born 1957)

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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.

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2020William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
2019Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
2018Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine
2006National Book Award
2003Dos Passos Prize
1999Society of American Historians Prize for Historical Fiction
1989MacArthur Fellows Program

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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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Born 1957 · age 69
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