Richard Powers - Awards and Recognition

Awards and Recognition

• 1985 Rosenthal Award of American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
• 1985 PEN/Hemingway Special Citation
• 1989 MacArthur Fellowship
• 1991 Time Magazine Book of the Year
• 1993 Finalist, National Book Award
• 1996 Swanlund Professorship, University of Illinois
• 1998 Business Week Best Business Books of 1998
• 1998 Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 1999 James Fenimore Cooper Prize, American Society of Historians
• 1999 Lannan Literary Award
• 2000 Vursell Award, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
• 2000 Elected Fellow, Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois
• 2001 Corrington Award for Literary Excellence, Centenary College
• 2001 Author of the Year, Illinois Association of Teachers of English
• 2003 Pushcart Prize
• 2003 Dos Passos Prize For Literature, Longwood University
• 2003 W. H. Smith Literary Award (Great Britain)
• 2004 Ambassador Book Award
• 2006 National Book Award for Fiction
• New York Times Notable Book, 2003, 2000, 1998, 1995, 1991
• Best Books of 2003: Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Newsday, London Evening Standard, Time Out ( London), San Jose Mercury News
• Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award, 2003, 1995, 1991, 1985
• Finalist, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2006
• 2010 Elected Member, American Academy of Arts and Letters