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Kevin Powers is an American novelist, poet, and soldier. He was born on July 11, 1980 in Richmond, Virginia. He is best known for his debut novel, The Yellow Birds, which was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award.
Powers enlisted in the United States Army in 1999 and served in Iraq from 2004 to 2005. He was awarded the Bronze Star for his service. After his return from Iraq, he attended Virginia Commonwealth University, where he earned a B.A. in English in 2008. He then went on to earn an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at Austin in 2011.
Powers' debut novel, The Yellow Birds, was published in 2012 and was a finalist for the National Book Award. The novel was also adapted into a feature film in 2018.
Powers has also published two collections of poetry, Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting (2014) and A Shout in the Ruins (2018).
As of 2021, Kevin Powers' net worth is estimated to be $1 million.
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43 years old |
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11 July, 1980 |
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11 July |
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Richmond, Virginia, USA |
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United States |
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Not all critics were so laudatory of The Yellow Birds, however. Ron Charles of The Washington Post wrote that "frankly, the parts of The Yellow Birds are better than the whole. Some chapters lack sufficient power, others labor under the influence of classic war stories, rather than arising organically from the author’s unique vision." [1] Michael Larson of Salon argues that the book is ruined by "boggy lyricism ... There’s never a sky not worthy of a few adjectives." [2] And Theo Tait of the London Review of Books argued that the book "labours under the weight of a massive Hemingway crush ... a trainwreck, from the first inept and imprecise simile, to the tin-eared rhythms, to the final incoherent thought." [3]
Powers's first novel The Yellow Birds, which drew on his experiences in the Iraq War, garnered a lucrative advance from publisher Michael Pietsch at Little, Brown. It has been called 'a classic of contemporary war fiction' by the New York Times. Michiko Kakutani, book critic for The New York Times, subsequently named the novel one of her 10 favorite books of 2012. Wrote Kakutani: "At once a freshly imagined bildungsroman and a metaphysical parable about the loss of innocence and the uses of memory, it’s a novel that will stand with Tim O’Brien’s enduring Vietnam book, The Things They Carried, as a classic of contemporary war fiction."
Asked about the best book of 2012, writer Dave Eggers said this to The Observer: "There are a bunch of books I could mention, but the book I find myself pushing on people more than any other is The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers. The author fought in Iraq with the US army, and then, many years later, this gorgeous novel emerged. Next to The Forever War by Dexter Filkins, it's the best thing I've read about the war in Iraq, and by far the best novel. Powers is a poet first, so the book is spare, incredibly precise, unimproveable. And it's easily the saddest book I've read in many years. But sad in an important way."
Powers was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, the son of a factory worker and a postman, and enlisted in the U.S. Army at the age of seventeen. He attended James River High School. Six years later, in 2004, he served a one-year tour in Iraq as a machine gunner assigned to an engineer unit. Powers served in Mosul and Tal Afar, Iraq, from February 2004 to March 2005. After his honorable discharge, Powers enrolled in Virginia Commonwealth University, where he graduated in 2008 with a bachelor's degree in English. He holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Michener Fellow in Poetry.
Kevin Powers (born July 11, 1980) is an American fiction writer, poet, and Iraq War veteran.
