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      Richard Powers is a prolific, award-winning American author of twelve novels. His most recent novel, The Overstory, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

      Powers was born in Evanston, Illinois on June 18th, When he was eleven years old, his family moved to Bangkok, Thailand, when his father accepted a position at the International School Bangkok. Powers attended that school until his freshman year in high school. He considered his time in Thailand “eye-opening,” and indulged in many intellectual pursuits. He became a voracious reader and learned to play the cello.

      The family returned to the United States in He finished his studies at DeKalb High School in DeKalb, Illinois, and then matriculated at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He originally chose physics for his major but switched it to English, earning both a B.A. and an M.A. in the subject.

      Not wanting to enter the rigid academic world of the English Ph.D., he worked

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      Richard Powers

      American novelist (born )

      For other people named Richard Powers, see Richard Powers (disambiguation).

      Richard Powers (born June 18, ) is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. His novel The Echo Maker won the National Book Award for Fiction.[1][2] He has also won many other awards over the course of his career, including a MacArthur Fellowship. As of , Powers has published fourteen novels and has taught at the University of Illinois and Stanford University. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory.

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      Early life

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      One of five children, Powers was born in Evanston, Illinois, the son of Richard Franklin Powers and his wife Donna Powers (née Belik).[3] His family later moved a few miles west to Lincolnwood, where his father was a local school principal. When Powers was 11, they moved to Bangkok, Thailand, where his father had accepted a pos

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