Ron Powers (born November 18, 1941) is an American journalist, novelist, and non-fiction writer.
His works include No One Cares About Crazy People: My Family and the Heartbreak of Mental Illness in America; White Town Drowsing: Journeys to Hannibal; Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain, and Mark Twain: A Life, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
With James Bradley, Powers co-wrote the 2000 number-one New York Times Bestseller Flags of Our Fathers.
[3] In 1985, Powers won an Emmy Award for his work on CBS News Sunday Morning.
[5] Hannibal was influential in much of Powers' writing[5]—as the subject of his book White Town Drowsing, as the location of the two true-life murders that are the subject of Tom and Huck Don't Live Here Anymore, and as the home of Mark Twain.