- 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". WithJames 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 inSalzburg ,Austria , and atMiddlebury College inMiddlebury, 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=2007References
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