Awards & Winners

J. F. Powers

Date of Birth 08-July-1917
Place of Birth Jacksonville
(Morgan County, Illinois, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as James Farl Powers
Profession Writer, Novelist
James Farl Powers was a Roman Catholic American novelist and short-story writer who often drew his inspiration from developments in the Catholic Church, and was known for his studies of midwestern Catholic priests. Although not a priest himself, he is credited with having captured a "clerical idiom" in the postwar era in North America.

Awards by J. F. Powers

Check all the awards nominated and won by J. F. Powers.

1988


Nominations 1988 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Fiction Wheat that springeth green

1963


National Book Award for Fiction
Honored for : Morte D'Urban

Nominations 1963 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Fiction Morte D'Urban

1957


Nominations 1957 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Fiction Presence of Grace