Writing the Pulitzer-Winning <em>The Overstory</em> Changed Richard Powers’s Life
The author’s 12th novel was inspired by what he’s described as a kind of “religious conversion.”
“Writing quite literally changed my life, starting with where and how I live,” the author Richard Powers . Before writing the book, Powers had been living and teaching in Palo Alto, between tech-centric Silicon Valley and California’s old-growth forests. An encounter with a giant redwood shook him; he describes it as a kind of “religious conversion” that showed him his place in “a system of meaning that doesn’t begin and end with
