Ron Powers
Journalist and nonfiction author
Ron Powers is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and author. He co-wrote Flags of Our Fathers and wrote about mental illness in his own family.
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American Born 1941 in Hannibal, United States
About Ron Powers
Ron Powers was born in 1941 in Hannibal, Missouri, the hometown of Mark Twain. In 1973 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his columns on television, written while he worked at the Chicago Sun-Times, and no television critic had been honored with it before him. He also earned an Emmy Award in 1985 for his contributions to CBS News Sunday Morning. His books include White Town Drowsing, Dangerous Water and Mark Twain: A Life, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. With James Bradley he co-wrote Flags of Our Fathers, a number-one New York Times bestseller in 2000. He also co-wrote the 2009 memoir True Compass with Ted Kennedy. In No One Cares About Crazy People, Powers writes about his family and the heartbreak of mental illness in America. The book was a finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.