Editing Richard Powers (section)

==Awards and recognition==
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* 1985 Rosenthal Award of the [[American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters]]
* 1985 [[PEN/Hemingway Award]] Special Citation
* 1989 [[MacArthur Fellowship]]
* 1991 [[Time (magazine)|''Time'']] Book of the Year
* 1993 Finalist, [[National Book Award]]
* 1996 Swanlund Professorship, [[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign|University of Illinois]]
* 1998 ''[[Business Week]]'' Best Business Books of 1998
* 1998 Elected Fellow, [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]
* 1999 [[James Fenimore Cooper Prize]], [[Society of American Historians]]
* 1999 [[Lannan Literary Award]]
* 2000 [[Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award]], American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
* 2000 Elected Fellow, Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois
* 2001 Corrington Award for Literary Excellence, Centenary College
* 2001 Author of the Year, Illinois Association of Teachers of English
* 2003 [[Pushcart Prize]]
* 2003 [[Dos Passos Prize for Literature]], Longwood University
* 2003 W. H. Smith Literary Award (Great Britain)
* 2004 Ambassador Book Award
* 2006 National Book Award for Fiction
* ''New York Times'' Notable Book, 2003, 2000, 1998, 1995, 1991
* Best Books of 2003: ''Chicago Tribune'', ''Christian Science Monitor'', ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'', ''Newsday'', ''London Evening Standard'', ''Time Out'' (London), ''San Jose Mercury News''
* Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award, 2003, 1995, 1991, 1985
* 2006 Finalist, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
* 2010 Elected Member, [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]]
* 2014 [[Man Booker Prize]] (longlist)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.themanbookerprize.com/news/longlist-2014-announced |title=Longlist 2014 announced &#124; the Man Booker Prizes |access-date=2014-07-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140726202101/http://www.themanbookerprize.com/news/longlist-2014-announced |archive-date=2014-07-26 }}</ref>
* 2014 [[California Book Awards]] Silver Medal Fiction winner for ''Orfeo''<ref name="The Commonwealth Club">{{cite web|url=http://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/special-events/california-book-awards|title=84th Annual California Book Awards Winners|publisher=Commonwealth Club World Affairs}}</ref>
* 2018 Man Booker Prize (shortlist)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://themanbookerprize.com/fiction/news/man-booker-prize-announces-2018-shortlist |title=The Man Booker Prize announces 2018 shortlist |publisher=The Booker Prizes|access-date=2018-09-20 }}</ref>
* 2019 [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]]
* 2019 [[PEN Oakland awards|PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award]] for ''The Overstory''
* 2020 [[William Dean Howells Medal]] for ''The Overstory''<ref name="AAAL2020-03-24">{{cite web | title=Peter Eisenman, David Blight, Richard Powers, and Bill Henderson receive highest honors | url=https://artsandletters.org/pressrelease/2020-special-awards/ | access-date=2020-04-07 | first=Ashley | last=Fedor | publisher= American Academy of Arts and Letters | date=March 24, 2020}}</ref>
* 2021 Booker Prize (shortlist)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Flood |first=Alison |date=September 14, 2021 |title=Nadifa Mohamed is sole British writer to make Booker prize shortlist |work=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/14/nadifa-mohamed-sole-british-writer-booker-prize-shortlist-2021 |access-date=September 14, 2021}}</ref>
* 2021 National Book Award (longlist)<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.nationalbook.org/2021-national-book-awards-longlist-for-fiction/| title = 2021 National Book Awards Longlist for Fiction - National Book Foundation| date = 17 September 2021}}</ref>
* 2024 [[Booker Prize]] (longlist)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Creamer |first=Ella |date=2024-07-30 |title=Three British novelists make Booker 2024 longlist among 'cohort of global voices' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jul/30/three-british-novelists-make-booker-2024-longlist-among-cohort-of-global-voices |access-date=2024-07-30 |work=The Guardian}}</ref>{{div-col-end }}