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Currently, Richard Powers is 66 years, 10 months and 11 days old. Richard Powers will celebrate 67rd birthday on a Tuesday 18th of June 2024. Below we countdown to Richard Powers upcoming birthday.
Popular As | Richard Powers |
Occupation | Novelist |
Age | 66 years old |
Zodiac Sign | Gemini |
Born | June 18, 1957 (Illinois) |
Birthday | June 18 |
Town/City | Illinois |
Nationality | Illinois |
Richard Powersโs zodiac sign is Gemini. According to astrologers, Gemini is expressive and quick-witted, it represents two different personalities in one and you will never be sure which one you will face. They are sociable, communicative and ready for fun, with a tendency to suddenly get serious, thoughtful and restless. They are fascinated with the world itself, extremely curious, with a constant feeling that there is not enough time to experience everything they want to see.
Richard Powers was born in the Year of the Rooster. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rooster are practical, resourceful, observant, analytical, straightforward, trusting, honest, perfectionists, neat and conservative. Compatible with Ox or Snake.
An American writer of modern technology and science-themed works, he is best known for his National Book Award-winning novel, The Echo Maker. His other literary works include Plowing the Dark and The Time of Our Singing.
He entered the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a physics major, but graduated as an English major.
August Sander's 1914 photograph, "Young Farmers," inspired Powers to quit his job and become a writer. He published his debut novel, Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance, in 1985.
He was the Illinois-born son of a school principal. He spent part of his childhood in Thailand, where his father worked at the International School in Bangkok.
He and Karen Tei Yamashita were both finalists for the National Book Award.