Richard Powers has published fourteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory. He lives in the Great Smoky Mountains.
An outstanding novel * Observer * A first novel of intricate merit... A rich imagination glitters throughout * Mail on Sunday * Unexpected and richly imaginative ... Full of intellectual descriptions and stylistic diversions * London Review of Books * A writer of blistering intellect ... [Powers is] a novelist of ideas and a novelist of witness, and in both respects, he has few American peers * Los Angeles Times * If Powers were an American writer of the nineteenth century he'd probably be the Herman Melville of Moby-Dick. His picture is that big -- Margaret Atwood