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Richard Powers


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Richard Powers is the author of  The Echo Maker  which won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Powers has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award and the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Historical Fiction. He lives in Illinois.
 

Awards: Pulitzer (2019), NBA (2006)  see all

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
September 2024

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Playground
 
Novels
   Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance (1985)
   Prisoner's Dilemma (1988)
   The Gold Bug Variations (1991)
   Operation Wandering Soul (1993)
   Galatea 2.2 (1995)
   Gain (1998)
   Plowing the Dark (2000)
   The Time of Our Singing (2002)
   The Echo Maker (2006)
   Generosity (2009)
   Orfeo (2014)
   The Overstory (2018)
   Bewilderment (2021)
   Playground (2024)
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Books containing stories by Richard Powers
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The Best American Short Stories 2011 (2011)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Geraldine Brooks
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The Best American Short Stories 2009 (2009)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Alice Sebold

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Awards
2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction : The Overstory
2006 National Book Award for Fiction : The Echo Maker

Award nominations
2024 Kirkus Prize for Fiction (finalist) : Playground
2024 Booker Prize (longlist) : Playground
2021 National Book Award for Fiction (longlist) : Bewilderment
2021 Booker Prize (shortlist) : Bewilderment
2019 PEN/Faulkner Award (nominee) : The Overstory
2019 ALA Notable Books for Adults (nominee) : The Overstory
2018 Booker Prize (shortlist) : The Overstory
2014 Booker Prize (longlist) : Orfeo
2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award (nominee) : Generosity
2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (nominee) : The Echo Maker
1995 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (nominee) : Galatea 2.2
1993 National Book Award for Fiction (shortlist) : Operation Wandering Soul
1991 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (nominee) : The Gold Bug Variations
1985 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (nominee) : Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance


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