Richard M. Powers
Richard M. Powers
Author • Cover artist • Illustrator1921-02-24 – 1996-03-0911
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Richard M. Powers was an American science fiction and fantasy fiction illustrator. He was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2008 and the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame in 2016. Born in Chicago into a Catholic family, Richard Michael Gorman Powers spent most of his early life…
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What awards did Richard M. Powers win?
Richard M. Powers received two career honours for his illustration work, both posthumously. He was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2008, cited for transforming the look of the genre — his surrealist cover paintings of the early 1950s turned science fiction art away from the spacemen and bug-eyed aliens of the pulp era. He was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame in 2016. Across his career he produced roughly 1,500 cover and interior works, more than 800 of them science fiction illustrations.
Is Richard M. Powers the same person as the novelist Richard Powers?
No — they are two different people. Richard M. Powers (1921–1996) was an American science fiction cover illustrator, best known for the surrealist jacket art he painted for Doubleday and Ballantine Books. Richard Powers (born 1957) is an American novelist, the author of The Overstory, Bewilderment and Playground, and winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The two share a name but no work: the illustrator died more than twenty years before The Overstory was published.