J. F. Powers

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J. F. (James Farl) Powers (8 July 1917 Jacksonville, Illinois - 12 June 1999 Collegeville, Minnesota) was an American novelist and short-story writer who often drew his inspiration from developments in the Catholic Church.

Although his published output was rather slim, Powers' work has long been admired by a devoted band of followers who appreciate his gentle satire and astonishing ability to recreate with a few words the enclosed, but gradually changing world of post-Second World War American Catholicism.

Prince of Darkness and Other Stories appeared in 1947. The Presence of Grace (1956) was also a collection of short stories. Morte d'Urban (1963), which won the National Book Award fiction prize the year it was published, was his first novel. Look how the Fish Live appeared in 1975 and Wheat That Springeth Green in 1988.

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