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Richard Powers was born on June 18, 1957 in Evanston, Illinois. He received bachelor's and master's degrees in English from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After graduation, he moved to Boston, Massachusetts and worked as a computer programmer and freelance data processor. One day he saw August Sander's 1914 black-and-white photograph of three Westerwald farm boys heading to a dance at the Museum of Fine Arts. This photograph inspired Powers to quit his job and try writing a novel. Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance was published in 1985. His other works include Prisoner's Dilemma, The Gold Bug Variations, Operation Wandering Soul, Galatea 2.2, Plowing the Dark, The Time of Our Singing, and Generosity: An Enhancement. He received numerous awards including the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction for Gain, the National Book Award for The Echo Maker, and Pulitzer Prize in fiction for The Overstory: A Novel. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Overstory… (more)
The Overstory 4,865 copies, 224 reviews
The Echo Maker 2,546 copies, 109 reviews
The Time of Our Singing 1,330 copies, 34 reviews
Bewilderment 1,326 copies, 66 reviews
Galatea 2.2 1,293 copies, 28 reviews
The Gold Bug Variations 1,208 copies, 16 reviews
Orfeo 873 copies, 48 reviews
Generosity: An Enhancement 656 copies, 31 reviews
Plowing the Dark 654 copies, 8 reviews
Gain 611 copies, 16 reviews
Operation Wandering Soul 433 copies, 3 reviews
Prisoner's Dilemma 369 copies, 3 reviews
Genie 13 copies, 2 reviews
The Orphan Master's Son (Afterword, some editions) 3,809 copies, 278 reviews
The Future Dictionary of America (Contributor) 622 copies, 3 reviews
The Best American Short Stories 2009 (Contributor) 352 copies, 10 reviews
The Best American Short Stories 2011 (Contributor) 336 copies, 7 reviews
Granta 90: Country Life (Contributor) 159 copies
Granta 108: Chicago (Contributor) 131 copies, 1 review
The Paris Review 167 2003 Fall (Contributor) 12 copies
Monkey Business: New Writing from Japan, Volume 03 (Contributor) 10 copies, 1 review
Black Clock 21 (Contributor) 4 copies
Black Clock 3 (Contributor) 1 copy
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