Richard Powers
Richard Powers is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. His novel The Echo Maker won the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction. He has also won many other awards over the course of his career, including a MacArthur Fellowship. As of 2023, Powers has published thirteen novels and has taught at the University of Illinois and Stanford University. He won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory.
Books by Richard Powers
6 books available
The Gold Bug Variations
by Richard Powers
4.1(1,686)
A reclusive molecular biologist and a data entry clerk find their lives, and the mysteries of love, music, and science, linked by a forgotten computer program and the ghost of Bach.
The Echo Maker
by Richard Powers
3.4(8,872)
After an accident makes him believe his sister is an impostor, a man's search for answers unravels his mind and the lives of those around him, as migrating cranes reflect their world's delicate balance.
The Overstory
by Richard Powers
4.1(72,622)
Through the lives of different strangers, 'The Overstory' shows humanity's strong, often destructive, link to the old, smart world of trees, asking us to rethink our place in nature's ongoing problems.
Orfeo
by Richard Powers
3.6(4,830)
An aging composer, mistaken for a bioterrorist because of his home microbiology lab, flees authorities with a plan to turn his search for hidden musical patterns into a final artistic statement.
The Time of Our Singing
by Richard Powers
4.3(2,802)
Three mixed-race siblings, raised with music and a dream of transcending identity, find their lives separating as one becomes an activist, another faces racial stereotypes in opera, and the third tries to hold their fractured family together.
The Overstory: A Novel
by Richard Powers
4.1(199,716)
Nine lives, bound by the silent wisdom of trees, unite in a desperate fight against humanity's destruction of nature.