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Richard Powers


Born
in Evanston, Illinois, The United States
June 18, 1957

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Genre
Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction

Influences
James Joyce, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, Henry David Thoreau ...more


Richard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. His book The Overstory won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. He lives in the Great Smoky Mountains.

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Average rating: 4.02 · 293,400 ratings · 40,024 reviews · 44 distinct works • Similar authors
The Overstory
4.12 avg rating — 174,733 ratings — published 2018 — 87 editions
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Bewilderment
3.91 avg rating — 64,907 ratings — published 2021 — 78 editions
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Playground
4.27 avg rating — 12,157 ratings — published 2024 — 22 editions
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The Echo Maker
3.44 avg rating — 11,837 ratings — published 2006 — 58 editions
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Orfeo
3.66 avg rating — 6,499 ratings — published 2014 — 60 editions
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The Time of Our Singing
4.26 avg rating — 3,985 ratings — published 2002 — 59 editions
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Galatea 2.2
3.73 avg rating — 3,296 ratings — published 1995 — 38 editions
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Generosity: An Enhancement
3.60 avg rating — 2,399 ratings — published 2009 — 13 editions
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The Gold Bug Variations
4.03 avg rating — 2,135 ratings — published 1991 — 21 editions
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Gain
3.77 avg rating — 1,168 ratings — published 1998 — 31 editions
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“The best arguments in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory
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“What you make from a tree should be at least as miraculous as what you cut down.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory
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“This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory
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