Charles T. Powers

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Charles T. Powers (1943-1996) was an American journalist and writer, chiefly remembered today for his novel In the Memory of the Forest.

A Missouri native, Charles T. 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. He spent twelve of those years as a correspondent in Africa. Powers was the Eastern European Bureau Chief for the Los Angeles Times from 1986 to 1991, during which he lived in Warsaw, Poland.

He lived in Bennington, Vermont for the last five years of his life. While there, he completed his first and only novel "In the Memory of the Forest."