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Ron Powers (born 1941) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, novelist, and non-fiction writer. His face include White Town Drowsing: Journeys to Hannibal, Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain, and Mark Twain: A Life. With James Bradley, he co-wrote the 2000 #1 New York Times Bestseller Flags of Our Fathers.

Powers won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1973 for his critical writing as TV-radio-columnist for Chicago Sun-Times about television during 1972. He was the first television critic to win the Pulitzer Prize.

In 1985, Powers won an Emmy Award for his work on CBS News Sunday Morning.

Powers was born in 1941 in Hannibal, Missouri — Mark Twain's hometown. Hannibal was influential in much of Powers' writing — as t...more

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Average rating: 4.15 · 9,131 ratings · 892 reviews · 23 distinct works

	Mark Twain 3.98 avg rating — 442 ratings — published 2005 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Tom and Huck Don't Live Here Anymore: Childhood and Murder in the Heart of America 2.80 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Dangerous Water: A Biography Of The Boy Who Became Mark Twain 3.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1967 — 3 editions	My rating:
	White Town Drowsing 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1986 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Face Value 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Last Flag Down: The Epic Journey of the Last Confederate Warship by John Baldwin, Ron Powers 3.64 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 2007 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Far From Home: Life and Loss in Two American Towns 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1991 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Beast, the Eunuch, and the Glass-Eyed Child: Television in the '80s 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1990 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Supertube: The Rise of Television Sports 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1984	My rating:
	The Newscasters 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1977	My rating:

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