| National Book Award | updated 4/23/07 | ||||||||||
| http://www.nationalbook.org/nbawinners.html | |||||||||||
| Total non-duplicated Faculty and University Alumni National Book Award recipients - 1 | |||||||||||
| Faculty | |||||||||||
| Total Faculty National Book Award recipients - 1 | Election Year | ||||||||||
| 1 | Powers, Richard | Category Fiction, for The Echo Maker. Set in Nebraska during the Platte River’s massive spring migrations, this novel explores the power and limits of human intelligence. Richard Powers is the author of eight previous novels, including Operation Wandering Soul, which was a nominated for a National Book Award in 1993. He has received numerous honors including a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Historical Fiction. | 2006 | ||||||||
| Alumni | |||||||||||
| Total University Alumni National Book Award recipients - 1 | Election Year | ||||||||||
| 1 | Powers, Richard | See faculty list | 2006 | ||||||||