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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: 4.02 · 382,570 ratings · 52,662 reviews · 105 distinct works • Similar authors
The Overstory
4.10 avg rating — 209,054 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions
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Bewilderment
3.91 avg rating — 74,324 ratings — published 2021 — 5 editions
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Playground
4.12 avg rating — 53,741 ratings — published 2024 — 43 editions
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The Echo Maker
3.45 avg rating — 12,912 ratings — published 2006 — 65 editions
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Orfeo
3.65 avg rating — 7,088 ratings — published 2014 — 58 editions
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The Time of Our Singing
4.25 avg rating — 4,461 ratings — published 2002 — 60 editions
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Galatea 2.2
3.73 avg rating — 3,596 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions
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Generosity: An Enhancement
3.62 avg rating — 2,660 ratings — published 2009 — 39 editions
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The Gold Bug Variations
3.99 avg rating — 2,334 ratings — published 1991 — 6 editions
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Three Farmers on Their Way ...
3.68 avg rating — 1,350 ratings — published 1985 — 6 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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