Richard Powers has been the recipient of a 1999 Lannan Literary Award and a MacArthur Fellowship. He is the author of eight novels, including "Plowing the Dark "(FSG, 2000), "Gain" (FSG, 1998), and "Galatea 2.2" (FSG, 1995). He lives in Illinois.
"I can think of no American novelist of his generation who makes a
stronger [case]--that the writing of novels is a heroic enterprise,
and perhaps even a matter of life and death." --A. O. Scott, "The
New York Review of Books"
"Powers is a genuine artist, a thinker of rare synthetic gifts,
maybe the only writer working...who can render the intricate dazzle
of it all and at the same time plumb its philosophical
implications." --Sven Birkerts, "Esquire"
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