Richard Powers
American novelist whose intellectually ambitious fiction engages with science, technology, and ecology. The Overstory won the Pulitzer Prize and brought widespread attention to environmental fiction. He is regarded as one of the most formally inventive novelists working in America.
Works
- The OverstoryInterconnected lives reveal humanity's intimate relationship with trees and environmental awakening
- The Echo Wife
- BewildermentFather shares memories with his neurodivergent son confronting death and wonder together
- Galatea 2.2AI and human fall in love as consciousness questions blur reality and fiction
- The Time of Our SingingMulti-generational family saga exploring music, identity, and race across twentieth century America