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Richard Powers

(b.1957)

Richard Powers is the author of The Echo Maker which won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Powers has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award and the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Historical Fiction. He lives in Illinois.

Genres: Literary Fiction

New and upcoming books

September 2024

Playground

Novels

   Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance (1985)
   Prisoner's Dilemma (1988)
   The Gold Bug Variations (1991)
   Operation Wandering Soul (1993)
   Galatea 2.2 (1995)
   Gain (1998)
   Plowing the Dark (2000)
   The Time of Our Singing (2002)
   The Echo Maker (2006)
   Generosity (2009)
   Orfeo (2014)
   The Overstory (2018)
   Bewilderment (2021)
   Playground (2024)

Books containing stories by Richard Powers

The Best American Short Stories 2011 (2011)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Geraldine Brooks

The Best American Short Stories 2009 (2009)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Alice Sebold

The Future Dictionary of America (2004)
edited by
Dave Eggers, Jonathan Safran Foer, Eli Horowitz and Nicole Krauss

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Awards

	2019 Pulitzer Prize : The Overstory
	2006 National Book Award for Fiction : The Echo Maker

Award nominations

	2021 Booker Prize (shortlist) : Bewilderment
	2019 PEN/Faulkner Award (nominee) : The Overstory
	2018 Booker Prize (shortlist) : The Overstory
	2014 Booker Prize (longlist) : Orfeo
	2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award (nominee) : Generosity
	2007 Pulitzer Prize (nominee) : The Echo Maker
	1993 National Book Award for Fiction (nominee) : Operation Wandering Soul

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