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.

18 June 1957

Born on the same birth date (18 June 1957): Miguel Ángel Lotina

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Born in the same month (June 1957): Bud Black • Javed Miandad • Leeona Dorrian, Lady Dorrian • Mark Lawrenson • María Conchita Alonso • Miguel Ángel Lotina • Mike Skinner (racing driver) • Timothy Busfield • Uģis Prauliņš