“The Overstory” by Richard Powers: Wins 2019 Pulitzer Prize for novel that employed all his “multiple personalities” and “that was so satisfying”

“…he has poured plenty of himself into the nine main human characters in The Overstory. The most obvious proxy is Nick Hoel: ‘The introspective midwestern creator and outsider, trying to solve the tensions between that intense introspection of his temperament with the outward ambition of his vocation – that’s me.’ But there’s also Mimi Ma, the engineer who represents the pragmatic path Powers might have taken; Neelay, a programmer who loses himself in alternative worlds, and Douglas, the war veteran to whom the author gave his ‘relentless goofy humour’. ‘It was like a five-year-long therapy session where I let all my multiple personalities off the leash and that was so satisfying’ ” (1).

1.  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/16/richard-powers-interview-overstory