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Richard Powers

Author

Bio

Richard Powers is the author of New York Times bestseller Bewilderment; The Overstory, which won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction; and The Echo Maker, which won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; among many other novels. Powers has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Historical Fiction, and is a four-time National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.

Richard Powers Books

The Gold Bug Variations book cover

The Gold Bug Variations

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Bewilderment: A Novel book cover

Bewilderment: A Novel

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Operation Wandering Soul book cover

Operation Wandering Soul

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Prisoner's Dilemma book cover

Prisoner's Dilemma

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Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance book cover

Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance

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The Overstory: A Novel book cover

The Overstory: A Novel

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Orfeo: A Novel book cover

Orfeo: A Novel

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Gain book cover

Gain

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Generosity book cover

Generosity

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The Echo Maker book cover

The Echo Maker

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The Time of Our Singing book cover

The Time of Our Singing

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Galatea 2.2 book cover

Galatea 2.2

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Plowing the Dark book cover

Plowing the Dark

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