Richard Powers is the author of 12 novels, most recently The Overstory. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the National Book Award, and he has been a Pulitzer Prize and four-time National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.
ARTICLES FEATURING
Speaking for the Trees: Richard Powers’s “The Overstory”
What does it mean to make nonhuman nature the “overstory”? Can trees carry a novel's narrative, which usually relies on human characters and conflicts?...
Where Have We Come From? Where Are We Going?: Identity and Self in Ann Leckie’s “Provenance”
Glyn Morgan on Ann Leckie's "Provenance."...
Here’s to Unsuicide: An Interview with Richard Powers
"We came into being by the grace of trees." Everett Hamner talks with Richard Powers about his latest novel, "The Overstory."...
