J. F. Powers

Morte d'Urban is the debut novel of J. F. Powers. It was published by Doubleday in 1962. It won the 1963 National Book Award. It is still in print, having been reissued by The New York Review of Books in 2000. The novel tells the story of Father Urban Roche, a member of a fictitious religious order named the …

Wheat That Springeth Green is J. F. Powers's last novel. It chronicles the childhood, adolescence, and adulthood of Joe Hackett, a Midwestern Catholic who becomes a priest and dreams of being a saint. It was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1988, reprinted by Pocket Books in 1990, and republished by The New York Review …