| 词条 | J. F. Powers |
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| name = J. F. Powers | image = J F Powers.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_name = James Farl Powers | birth_date = {{Birth date|1917|7|8}} | birth_place = Jacksonville, Illinois, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1999|6|12|1917|7|8}} | death_place = Collegeville, Minnesota, U.S. | resting_place = | occupation = Novelist and short-story writer | language = | nationality = | ethnicity = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | portaldisp = }} James Farl Powers (July 8, 1917{{spaced ndash}}June 12, 1999) was an American novelist and short-story writer who often drew his inspiration from developments in the Catholic Church, and was known for his studies of Catholic priests in the Midwest. Although not a priest himself, he is known for having captured a "clerical idiom" in postwar North America. Early lifePowers was born in Jacksonville, Illinois to a devout Catholic family. He graduated from Quincy College Academy, a Franciscan high school. He took English and philosophy courses at Wright Junior College and at Northwestern University in Chicago, but did not earn a degree. He had various jobs, such as insurance salesman, sales clerk, editor and bookstore clerk. CareerPowers was a conscientious objector during World War II, and went to prison for it. Later he worked as a hospital orderly.[1] His first writing experiment began as a spiritual exercise during a religious retreat. His work has long been admired for its gentle satire and its astonishing ability to recreate with a few words the insular but gradually changing world of post-World War II American Catholicism. Evelyn Waugh, Flannery O'Connor, and Walker Percy praised his work, and Frank O'Connor spoke of him as "among the greatest living storytellers".[2] Prince of Darkness and Other Stories appeared in 1947. His story "The Valiant Woman" received the O. Henry Award in 1947.[3] The Presence of Grace (1956) was also a collection of short stories. His first novel was Morte d'Urban (1962), which won the 1963 National Book Award for Fiction.[4]Look How the Fish Live appeared in 1975 and Wheat that Springeth Green in 1988. Powers lived in Ireland for thirteen years. After moving back and forth from Ireland, he settled with his family in Collegeville, Minnesota, where he taught creative writing and English literature at Saint John's University.[5] Following his death in 1999, the New York Review reissued his novels and published The Stories of J. F. Powers in 2000. The Southern Illinois University Special Collections Research Center has collected the records or Manuscript Collections Created by Powers.[3] Family lifePowers met and married Betty Wahl after reviewing a sample of Wahl's fiction. Sister Mariella Gable, OSB, a member of the College of Saint Benedict English faculty, sent him the sample and Powers asked to meet the writer. Powers and Wahl were married in 1946 after Wahl's graduation. They had five children.[6] Published works
References1. ^Jackson, Kenneth T. (ed.) (2004). The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives (Vol. 5, 1997-1999), p. 456. Simon and Schuster. {{ISBN|0-684-80663-0}}. 2. ^Mel Gussow (June 17, 1999). [https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/17/arts/j-f-powers-81-dies-wrote-about-priests.html "J. F. Powers, 81, Dies; Wrote About Priests"]. The New York Times 3. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://archives.lib.siu.edu/index.php?p=creators/creator&id=329|title=Powers, J. F. (James Farl), (1917-)|publisher= Southern Illinois University Special Collections Research Center|accessdate= October 14, 2012}} 4. ^[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1963 "National Book Awards – 1963"]. National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-02-26. (With acceptance speech by Powers and essay by Joshua Ferris and Fiona Maazel from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.) 5. ^[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/17/arts/j-f-powers-81-dies-wrote-about-priests.html "J. F. Powers, 81, Dies; Wrote About Priests"]. The New York Times 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.johnrosengren.net/powers|title=The Gospel according to J. F. Powers|publisher= Portland magazin|accessdate= October 14, 2012}} External links{{Wikiquote}}
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