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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.

Librarian note: There is more than one author with this name in the Goodreads database.

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Average rating: 4.03 · 351,479 ratings · 48,090 reviews · 91 distinct works • Similar authors
The Overstory
4.11 avg rating — 194,865 ratings — published 2018 — 91 editions
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Bewilderment
3.91 avg rating — 70,903 ratings — published 2021 — 82 editions
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Playground
4.15 avg rating — 41,795 ratings — published 2024 — 38 editions
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The Echo Maker
3.44 avg rating — 12,456 ratings — published 2006 — 64 editions
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Orfeo
3.66 avg rating — 6,872 ratings — published 2014 — 58 editions
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The Time of Our Singing
4.25 avg rating — 4,264 ratings — published 2002 — 63 editions
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Galatea 2.2
3.73 avg rating — 3,492 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions
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Generosity: An Enhancement
3.61 avg rating — 2,541 ratings — published 2009 — 39 editions
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The Gold Bug Variations
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,260 ratings — published 1991 — 27 editions
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Three Farmers on Their Way ...
3.69 avg rating — 1,297 ratings — published 1985 — 36 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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