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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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Vanity Fair, March 30, 2012
...m going to do the play in Missouri as well. I’m finally going to get to meet Ron Powers, one of the great biographers of Twain. We’re going to go together to Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain was raised. How is your doctorate embarrassing? Well, it’s...
Vanity Fair, March 29, 2012
...m going to do the play in Missouri as well. I’m finally going to get to meet Ron Powers, one of the great biographers of Twain. We’re going to go together to Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain was raised. How is your doctorate embarrassing? Well, it’s...
World Book and News, February 9, 2012
...release in 2003 as “a timeless, beguiling gift to readers of all ages” by Pulitzer Prize- and Emmy-winner Ron Powers. “Now it truly is timeless,” says Bortz. Another Pulitzer Prize-winner, Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights, said in...
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...
Chattanooga Times Free Press, March 3, 2012
...the slot. Commissioner Warren Mackey was absent. The commission's decision is yet to be contested, however. Philyaw, Ron Powers, Valerie Epstein, Gary Starnes and Patricia Vital, all among the 10 candidates who applied for the post, have said they plan...
Chattanoogan, March 2, 2012
...the district attorney's office and later a magistrate. Picking up earlier were Patricia Best Vital, Rob Philyaw, Ron Powers, Gary Starnes and Valerie Epstein. The County Commission on Thursday appointed David Norton as interim judge. The vacancy was...
Chattanooga Times Free Press, March 2, 2012
...sensitivity, but the dispatch with which you did it." By the end of the day Thursday, candidates Ron Powers and Philyaw had qualified for the August election to fill the judge position. Powers announced in the afternoon he'd be kicking off his campaign...
Chattanoogan, March 1, 2012
...Attorney Ron Powers announced today that he will kick off his “Powers for the Courts” campaign for Hamilton County General Sessions Court Judge on Thursday, March 15, from 5-7:30 p.m...
Chattanooga Times Free Press, March 1, 2012
...for another judicial candidate if it's against a sitting judge," Hoss said. Candidates Rob Philyaw and Ron Powers also supported a move to appoint Hoss. "A caretaker who is qualified to serve as judge is the best alternative," Powers said. Commissioner...
North Bay Business Journal, February 27, 2012
...Insurance; Angela Hernandez, Cresco Rents; Doug Holmes, FEDCO; Rick Moshier, city of Santa Rosa; Ed Nessinger, Nessco Construction; Ron Powers; Lacey Torkelson Smith, Wells Fargo Insurance; Kent Stevenson, Stevenson Supply & Tractor; Aaron Tompkins, Moss...
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, February 23, 2012
...With a cross of ashes already on her forehead, Allisa Woodworth watches as visiting Pastor Ron Powers performs the imposition of ashes on her son Jackson, 1, during an Ash Wednesday service at American Lutheran Church. Gretel Daugherty With a cross of...