Awards & Winners

Ron Powers

Date of Birth 1941
Place of Birth Hannibal
(Marion County, Missouri, Ralls County, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Writer, Journalist, Novelist, Critic
Ron Powers is a Pulitzer Prize-winning 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. 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.

Awards by Ron Powers

Check all the awards nominated and won by Ron Powers.

2005


Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography Mark Twain

1973


Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
(For his critical writing about television during 1972.)