Ron Powers

Ron Powers

Ron Powers (born 1941) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, novelist, and non-fiction writer. His works include "White Town Drowsing: Journeys to Hannibal", "Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain", and "Mark Twain: A Life". With James Bradley, he co-wrote the 2000 #1 New York Times Bestseller "Flags of Our Fathers".

Powers won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1973 for his critical writing as TV-radio-columnist for "Chicago Sun-Times" about television during 1972. [cite web
url=http://www.pulitzer.org/cyear/1973w.html|accessdate=2006-12-20
title=The Pulitzer Prizes for 1973
publisher=The Pulitzer Prize Board
] [cite web
url=http://www.nndb.com/honors/503/000079266/ |accessdate=2006-12-19
title=Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
publisher=NNDB
] He was the first television critic to win the Pulitzer Prize.cite interview
url=http://www.c-spanstore.org/shop/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=190485-1
accessdate=2006-12-19
subject=Ron Powers
title=In Depth with Ron Powers
date=January 1, 2006
program="In Depth"
publisher=CSPAN
]

In 1985, Powers won an Emmy Award for his work on "CBS News Sunday Morning".

Personal/influence

Powers was born in 1941 in Hannibal, Missouri — Mark Twain's hometown. cite web|url=http://www.hannibal.net/twain/powers/bio.shtml |accessdate=2006-12-23
title=Ron Powers
work=Mark Twain: A Look at the Life and Works of Samuel Clemens
publisher=The Hannibal Courier, Hannibal.net
] Hannibal was influential in much of Powers' writing — as the subject of his book "White Town Drowsing", as the location of the two true-life murders that are the subject of "Tom and Huck Don't Live Here Anymore", and as the home of Mark Twain. Powers has said that his fascination with Twain — the subject of two of his books — began in childhood::"When I was a little boy in Hannibal, he was a mystic figure to me. His pictures and books and images were all over (my friend) Dulany Winkler's house, and I spent a lot of time there. I just wanted to reach out and touch him. Eventually I was able to." [cite web
url=http://www.hannibal.net/twain/powers/cp_powers2.shtml
title=Powers writes about Twain's childhood
author=Mary Lou Montgomery
work=The Hannibal Courier
date=June 2, 1999
]

In addition to writing, Powers has taught for the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Salzburg Seminar in Salzburg, Austria, and at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont.

Powers is married and has two sons.He currently resides in Castleton, Vermont.

Bibliography

*cite book|title=Newscasters: The News Business As Show Business
publisher=St. Martins Press
id=ISBN 0312572085
year=1979

*cite book|title=White Town Drowsing: Journeys to Hannibal
publisher=Atlantic Monthly Press |location=Boston
id=ISBN 087113103X
year=1986

*cite book|title=The Beast, the Eunuch, and the Glass-Eyed Child: Television in the 80s
publisher=Harcourt
id=ISBN 031226240X
year=1990

*cite book|title=Far From Home: Life and Loss in Two American Towns
publisher=Random House
id=ISBN 0394570340
year=1991

*cite book|title=The Cruel Radiance Notes of a Prosewriter in a Visual Age
publisher=Middlebury College Press
year=1994

*cite book|title=Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain
publisher=Da Capo Press |location=New York
id=ISBN 0-306-81086-7
year=1999

*cite book|title=Tom and Huck Don't Live Here Anymore: Childhood and Murder in the Heart of America
publisher=St. Martin's Press
id=ISBN 0-312-26240-X
year=2001

*cite book|title=Mark Twain: A Life
publisher=Free Press
id=ISBN 0743248996
year=2005

;Co-authored:
*cite book|title=Flag of Our Fathers
author=James Bradley and Ron Powers
publisher=Bantam
id=ISBN 0553111337
year=2000

*cite book|title=The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle: Memoir of a WWII Bomber Pilot
author=Robert Morgan and Ron Powers
publisher=Dutton Adult
id=ISBN 0525946101
year=2001

*cite book|title=Last Flag Down: The Epic Journey of the Last Confederate Warship
author=John Baldwin and Ron Powers
publisher=Crown Publishers
id=ISBN 9780307236555
year=2007

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