Ron Powers
Ron Powers, born in 1941 in Hannibal, Missouri, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author.
He won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism as the first television critic so honored, and earned an Emmy Award in 1985 for CBS News Sunday Morning.
Powers has written extensively about Mark Twain, producing multiple books about the author who came from his hometown.
He co-wrote the #1 New York Times bestseller Flags of Our Fathers with James Bradley in 2000.
Powers has taught at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Salzburg Seminar, and Middlebury College.
He is married with two sons and lives in Castleton, Vermont.
