Author

Books by Richard Powers

Richard Powers is an American novelist known for fiction that weaves together scientific research and humanist concern. His twelve novels include The Echo Maker, which won the National Book Award; The Overstory, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2019; and Bewilderment. He studied physics before turning to literature, and his work characteristically draws on advances in biology, neuroscience, and ecology. Powers is one of the most decorated American novelists of his generation, and his fiction is notable for the scale of its intellectual ambition and the emotional seriousness with which it treats scientific ideas.