13 Facts About Nate Powell

Nathan Lee Powell was born on 1978 and is an American graphic novelist and musician.

Nate Powell illustrated the March trilogy, an autobiographical series written by US Congressman John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, which received the 2016 National Book Award, making Powell the first cartoonist to receive the award.

Nate Powell was born July 31,1978 in Little Rock, Arkansas.

The child of an Air Force officer, Nate Powell's family moved often, living in Montana and Alabama before returning to Little Rock.

Nate Powell attended North Little Rock High School and began self-publishing comics in 1992.

Nate Powell graduated from 1996, and briefly attended George Washington University in Washington, DC.

Nate Powell transferred to the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where he majored in Cartooning.

Nate Powell owned DIY punk record label Harlan Records and performed in several punk bands including Universe, Divorce Chord, WAIT, and Soophie Nun Squad.

Nate Powell's 2008 graphic novel Swallow Me Whole won the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Debut and Outstanding Artist, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the Young Adult Fiction category.

Nate Powell has worked on the graphic novel adaptation of Rick Riordan's The Heroes of Olympus: The Lost Hero, while working on his own next book, entitled Cover and the short comics collection You Don't Say.

On May 15,2014, Nate Powell was present at that year's commencement ceremony for his alma mater, the School of Visual Arts, when the school presented an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts to Nate Powell's March collaborator, John Lewis.

Nate Powell lived intermittently in central Arkansas, while calling East Lansing, Michigan; South Hadley Falls, Massachusetts; and Providence, Rhode Island, home from 2001 to 2003.

Nate Powell married Rachel Lee Bormann, a social worker, in 2010, and the couple lives in Bloomington, Indiana, with their two daughters.