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Charles T. Powers (1943–1996) was an American journalist and writer, chiefly remembered for his novel In the Memory of the Forest , set in Poland.

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A native of Missouri, Powers began his writing career at the Kansas City Star . He was a former Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and spent twenty years as a journalist for the Los Angeles Times . He spent long stretches of his tenure with the Times as a foreign correspondent in Africa, based in Nairobi from 1980 to 1986, and as Eastern European Bureau Chief from 1986 to 1991, during which time he lived in Warsaw.

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Powers lived in Bennington, Vermont for the last five years of his life. While there, he completed his first and only novel In the Memory of the Forest. [1] The book has since been translated into German, French, Polish and Italian. [2]

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The New York Times writer Alan Cowell wrote an essay about Powers that was published in 1997 in the International Herald Tribune . Cowell and Powers had worked together as foreign correspondents, based in Nairobi. [3]

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Powers was married to the author Cheryl Bentsen.

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References

  1. ↑ New York Times review of In the Memory of the Forest
  2. ↑ Charles T. Powers blog
  3. ↑ "A Poet on Deadline, a Traveler Who Left Too Soon" by Alan Cowell The New York Times, July 4, 1997


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