Name Ron Powers Role Journalist | Movies Flags of Our Fathers | |
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Nominations National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography Books Flags of Our Fathers, Mark Twain, Last Flag Down: The Epic Jour, Tom and Huck Don't Live Here, Dangerous water Similar People James Bradley, William Broyles - Jr, John Bradley, Ira Hayes, Rene Gagnon | ||
Ron powers mark twain
Ron Powers (born November 18, 1941) is an American 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. The book won the Colby Award the following year.
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As TV and radio columnist for Chicago Sun-Times, Powers won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1973 for his critical writing about television during 1972. He was the first television critic to win the Pulitzer Prize.
In 1985, Powers won an Emmy Award for his work on CBS News Sunday Morning. In 1993 he completed a biography of Muppets creator Jim Henson that was scheduled to be published in October 1994, but after objections from the Henson family Random House declined to release it.
Author Ron Powers gets personal about mental illness
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Powers was born in 1941 in Hannibal, Missouri — Mark Twain's hometown. 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:
In 2017, Powers published "No One Cares About Crazy People - The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America", chronicling his sons' schizophrenia, and the family's experience of dealing with the American mental health system.
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 is father to two sons; one of whom died in 2005. He currently resides in Castleton, Vermont.