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Ron Powers

Ron Powers

Ron Powers

Ron Powers, a Pulitzer Prize-winning and Emmy Award-winning writer and critic, has studied and written about Mark Twain for many years. He is the author of ten books, including Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain, and the coauthor of two, including the #1 New York Times bestseller Flags of Our Fathers. He lives in Middlebury, Vermont.

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Rutland Herald, November 11, 2011
...Local Mark Twain author Ron Powers will be honored by the University of Missouri at its 44th Annual Faculty-Alumni Awards Ceremony on Friday. Powers, a leading nonfiction writer, received a bachelor’s degree in journalism...
PublishersWeekly.com, November 7, 2011
...Barnes & Noble and will work with NBN publishers as an account manager. The company also brought on Ron Powers, former v-p of sales for national accounts at Ingram Content Group, to head NBNs Fusion eBook business. In addition, Jason Brockwell has been...
East Hampton Star, September 15, 2011
...to accommodate his doppelganger. Ms. Ciuraru tells us that Twain called himself “an independent double,” and his biographer Ron Powers wrote that Twain’s “indifference to the boundary between fact and fantasy became a hallmark of literature, and...
Time Out Chicago, September 1, 2011
...the job in recent years and opted to rely on wire copy instead. But at the Sun-Times (where Ron Powers was the first TV critic to win a Pulitzer Prize nearly 40 years ago), editors still consider it a priority to have someone on staff to guide readers...
ESPN.com, August 30, 2011
...if they are sitting down at a long, well-lubricated dinner with the subject. "Mark Twain: A Life" by Ron Powers is one such bio, and another is Leigh Montville's brilliant recent biography of Evel Knievel: "Evel." Montville has long been one of my...
Times Argus, June 6, 2011
...won prizes, made headlines and … cheese? Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and co-author of “Flags of Our Fathers,” Ron Powers, is scheduled to visit the Aldrich on June 22 and next week’s author is Capt. Richard Phillips — the Underhill man...
PBS, February 15, 2011
...publisher is selling a sanitized version that replaces the N-word with "slave." Such controversies, writes Twain biographer Ron Powers, "have left deep imprints on Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , encouraging students and general readers to approach the...
By Ken Levine, May 1, 2011
...an article about me. My wife is still laughing. “ You in GQ?” I did the phone interview with Ron Powers who wrote the piece. Then I got a call from their photographer. They wanted to take pictures of me that Friday at a local baseball stadium. I said...