Richard Powers

Quick Facts

Full Name	Richard Powers
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Jun 18, 1957(1957-06-18)
Age	67
Birthplace	Evanston
Country	United States
Birth City	Illinois
Horoscope	Gemini

Richard Powers Biography

Richard Powers is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on June 18, 1957 in Evanston, Illinois, United States. He is an American author of science-themed and modern technology-related works. His novel, The Echo Maker, which won the National Book Award, is his most well- known work. Plowing the Dark, and The Time of Our Singing are two of his literary works.

Both he and He and Karen Tei Yamashita were both finalists for the National Book Award. were finalists for National Book Award.

One of five children, Powers was born in Evanston, Illinois. His family later moved a few miles west to Lincolnwood where his father was a local school principal. When Powers was 11 they moved to Bangkok, Thailand, where his father had accepted a position at International School Bangkok, which Powers attended through his freshman year, ending in 1972. During that time outside the U.S. he developed skill in vocal music and proficiency in cello, guitar, saxophone, and clarinet. He also became an avid reader, enjoying nonfiction, primarily, and classics such as the Iliad and the Odyssey.

The family returned to the U.S. when Powers was 16. Following graduation in 1975 from DeKalb High School in DeKalb, Illinois, he enrolled at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (UIUC) with a major in physics, which he switched to English literature during his first semester. There he earned the BA in 1978 and the MA in Literature in 1980. He decided not to pursue the PhD partly because of his aversion to strict specialization, which had been one reason for his early transfer from physics to English, and partly because he had observed in graduate students and their professors a lack of pleasure in reading and writing (as portrayed in Galatea 2.2).

He was the son of an Illinois school principal. His childhood was spent in Thailand where his father worked as a principal at the International School of Bangkok.

Richard Powers Net Worth

Richard Powers is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Richard Powers 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was originally a physics major when he entered the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, but he graduated as an English major.

Powers was inspired by August Sander’s 1914 photo, “Young Farmers”, to quit his job as a journalist. In 1985, he published Three Farmers on their Way to a Dance.

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 2018 Powers has published twelve novels and has taught at the University of Illinois and Stanford Universities. He won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory.

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Who is Richard Powers Dating?

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Powers was appointed the Swanlund Professor of English at UIUC in 1996, where he is currently an emeritus professor.

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Richard Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Richard Powers celebrates birthday on June 18 of every year.

Plowing the Dark (2000) is another novel with parallel narratives, this time of a Seattle research team building a groundbreaking virtual reality, while at the same time an American teacher is held hostage in Beirut.

Is Richard Powers a scientist?

Powers has a background in science ; in his last semester of undergraduate studies, he changed his major from physics to english literature. Later, he worked as a computer programmer, and eventually quit to write full time.

Where should I start with Richard Powers?

• Bewilderment (2021) They share a lot, astronomy and childhood. …
• The Overstory (2019) What you make from a tree should be at least as miraculous as what you cut down. …
• Gain (2000) …
• Plowing the Dark (2001) …
• The Echo Maker (2007)

Is Richard Powers a professor?

Powers was appointed the Swanlund Professor of English at UIUC in 1996, where he is currently an emeritus professor.

Is bewilderment a sequel to The Overstory?

“Bewilderment” is the follow-up to “The Overstory” (2018), his beloved novel about trees, the importance of maintaining forests and people, in that order. It won a Pulitzer Prize and made Powers something close to a secular saint.

Which Richard Powers book should I read first?

1 The Overstory by Richard Powers 4.12 avg rating — 120,044 ratings score: 993, and 10 people voted
3| Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers 3.74 avg rating — 2,802 ratings score: 687, and 7 people voted
4| Generosity: An Enhancement by Richard Powers 3.57 avg rating — 2,084 ratings score: 576, and 6 people voted