Ron Powers Biography

Ron Powers is a Pulitzer Prize-winning and Emmy Award-winning writer and critic with a career that spans over four decades. He is the author of sixteen books including No One Cares About Crazy People; Dangerous Water; and co-author of The New York Times best-seller Flags of Our Fathers.
His most recent book No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America offers a searching rich narrative of the social history of mental illness in America paired with the deeply personal story of his two sons' battles with schizophrenia. From the centuries of torture of lunatiks at Bedlam Asylum to the current mental health landscape Powers delineates our fears and myths about mental illness and the fractured public policies that have resulted. Braided with that history is the moving story of Powers' beloved son Kevin--spirited endearing and gifted--who triumphed even while suffering from schizophrenia until finally he did not and the story of his courageous surviving son Dean who is also schizophrenic.
As a Hannibal Mo. native Powers has had a lifelong fascination with Mark Twain. Powers has written two books on Twain & one on the region that raised him

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