[2] He won a James Beard Foundation Award, in 1997, in the "Newspaper Feature Writing without Recipes" category.
[3] Powell has written for many publications, including The New York Times, Slate, and Mother Jones.
"[11] Steve Almond, writing in Salon, called it "compulsively readable, precisely because it focuses on the very parts of Miami that tourists will never see, the vast, desperate ghettos where athletic success has become, for all intents and purposes, the only path to the American dream.
"[12] This Love Is Not For Cowards: Salvation and Soccer in Ciudad Juárez, Powell's second book, also received strong reviews.
"[13] The Boston Globe considered it a "clear-eyed and humane book [that] has succeeded in introducing [its] readers to a truth behind the grim and monotonous headlines.