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Thomas Powers (New York City, December 12, 1940) is an American author and

intelligence expert. He was awarded the Pulitzer

Prize for National Reporting in 1971 together with Lucinda Franks for his articles on Weatherman member Diana Oughton (1942-1970). He was also the recipient of

the Olive Branch award in 1984 for a cover story on the Cold War that appeared in The Atlantic, a 2007 Berlin Prize, and for his 2010 book on Crazy Horse the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History. Born in New York

City in 1940, he was a 1958 graduate of Tabor Academy.

Powers later attended Yale University, where he graduated in 1964 with a degree in

English. At first he worked for the Rome Daily American in

Italy, later for United Press International.

In 1970 he became a freelance writer.

Powers is the author of six works of non-fiction and one novel. His The

Man who Kept Secrets: Richard Helms and

the CIA (1979) is "widely regarded as one of the

best books ever written on the subject of intelligence." His work on Werner Heisenberg tracks secret developments in nuclear

physics during the 1930s and early 1940s. The revised edition of his Intelligence

Wars contains twenty-eight articles previously published in the New

York Review of Books and the New York Times Book Review from

1983 to 2004. His most recent book follows the life of Crazy Horse (died Nebraska 1877). Evan Thomas in The New York Times,

while reviewing this book, also commented broadly on Powers as an author and a

previous work on Richard Helms: Powers is

"a great journalistic anthropologist. In possibly the best book ever

written about the C.I.A, The Man Who Kept the Secrets, Powers took

the reader on a fascinating journey into the world of secret intelligence

gathering and covert action. The C.I.A. was, at least in the early years of the

cold war, a tribe as mysterious and exotic as the Great Plains Sioux of the 1870s.

And Powers tells us much that is revealing and often moving about the Sioux in

their last days as free warriors". Powers has been a

contributor to The New York Review of

Books The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times Book

Review, Harper's, The Nation, Commonweal, and Rolling Stone. Besides writing, Powers joined a

partnership to found in 1993 a publishing company, Steerforth Press.

Originally located in South Royalton, Vermont, it is now located in Hanover,

New Hampshire. Its website self describes as a "small independent

house" with a "range of titles on a variety of topics". Powers

and his wife Candace live in Vermont.[8] In 1979 he was living with his wife and three

daughters in New York City. "He is currently writing a memoir of his

father, who once told him that the last time he met Clare Boothe Luce was in

the office of Allen Dulles."