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.
[1] 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.
[4] 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.