Tim Powers

Tim Powers, born Timothy Thomas Powers on 29 February 1952, is an American author of science fiction and fantasy. His first major novel was The Drawing of the Dark in 1979, and The Anubis Gates in 1983 earned him wide praise and won the Philip K. Dick Award. His later novels include Dinner at Deviant's Palace, Last Call, Expiration Date, Earthquake Weather, Declare and Three Days to Never. He has twice won the World Fantasy Award, for Last Call and for Declare. His 1987 novel On Stranger Tides inspired the Monkey Island video game franchise and was partly adapted into the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film. Several of his novels show historical events shaped by occult or supernatural factors.