Richard Powers (born June 18, 1957) is a novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology on human lives, but without "gee-whiz" or Luddite overtones. Sourced All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put...
LOS ANGELES-BASED KB HOME, A NATIONAL HOME BUILDER, NOW HAS Richard Powers as one of its top executives for its Home Mortgage Co. division. Powers most recently was president of Richmond, Virginia-based Charter One Mortgage Corporation before making the move to become the new...
Joseph Dewey. Understanding Richard Powers. Univ. of South Carolina Press, 2002. 176 pp. $29.95. In this excellent introduction to the work of Richard Powers, Joseph Dewey resolutely describes the author of The Gold Bug Variations and seven other "big novels of ideas" as...
