Richard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory and his most recent novel, Bewilderment, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He lives in the Great Smoky Mountains.
Spectacular ... Powers loves placing brilliant characters inside a fluorescent incubator, then watching ideas hatch on the page ... Riveting * New York Times * Superb ... Powers' seventh and perhaps greatest novel ... one of the most astonishing feats I've ever seen in literature * Washington Post * Richard Powers is one of the few writers who has taken on the challenge of Thomas Pynchon, creating a complex, unsentimental and simultaneously deeply moving world * Red *