Richard Powers

Richard Powers was an American novelist, writer and programmer (born 1957). He was born at Evanston.

Overview

Born at Evanston in 1957.

Formation and teaching

Richard Powers studied at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, DeKalb High School, International School Bangkok and UIUC College of Media.

Career and activity

He was employed by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. He belonged to American Academy of Arts and Sciences and American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Work and production

Works recorded as notable number 4: Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance, The Echo Maker, Galatea 2.2 and Operation Wandering Soul. His recorded genre is science fiction.

Recognition and collections

Richard Powers received MacArthur Fellows Program, National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Society of American Historians Prize for Historical Fiction and Dos Passos Prize.

Catalogued works

22 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service, Open Library and The Art Institute of Chicago. Their recorded dates run from 1850 to 1871. The first 12 are listed here.

The Echo Maker. The Time of Our Singing. Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance. Gain. Galatea 2.2. Plowing the Dark. Prisoner's Dilemma. The Gold Bug Variations. Orfeo. Generosity: An Enhancement. Operation Wandering Soul. The Overstory.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.

The Art Institute of Chicago: 132681 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

5 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

2. Mosaics: Richard Powers, Plowing the Dark, Rewiring the Real, 2013. Juvenile Cosmology; Or Richard Powers’ Post-Global Doughnut, Transatlantica, 2009. The Crumbling Two-Story Architecture of Richard Powers’ Fictions, Transatlantica, 2009. Powers, Richard M. (1921-1996), artist, American National Biography Online, 2006. Nothing Risked, Nothing Gained: Richard Powers' Gain and the Horizon of Risk, Transatlantica, 2009.

In detail

Richard Powers studied at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, DeKalb High School and International School Bangkok. the recorded working language is English.

Subjects and genres recorded for the work are science fiction.

Employment is recorded with University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. Membership is recorded of American Academy of Arts and Sciences and American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Works named in the authority record are Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance, The Echo Maker, Galatea 2.2 and Operation Wandering Soul.

Distinctions recorded are MacArthur Fellows Program, National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Chronology

  1. 1957Richard Powers born at Evanston.

Sources

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  • reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

    “Richard Powers”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

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  • reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikidata

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q638179: Richard Powers

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