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- Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is an American novelist and short story author, and writer of a series of novels featuring the character Frank Bascombe.
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Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is an American novelist and short story author, and writer of a series of novels featuring the character Frank Bascombe. [1] Ford's first collection of short stories, Rock Springs, was published in 1987. [2] [3] In the United States, Ford received the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for his novel Independence Day.
Jun 15, 2023 · Ford, now 79, has been at the top of the literary tree — American branch — throughout those decades, having started out with tough, hard-boiled thriller-ish novels. But it’s his later, more...
Apr 28, 2017 · The author of the Frank Bascombe tetralogy — beginning with 1986’s The Sportswriter, through 1995’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Independence Day, 2006’s Lay of the Land and 2014’s Let Me...
May 20, 2023 · Richard Ford is talking, via Zoom, about his recent move from Maine, in the northeastern corner of the USA, where he lived when I last spoke to him in 2020, to the southern city of New Orleans....
Jun 21, 2023 · ‘At my age I can’t get into fistfights’: Novelist Richard Ford on dyslexia, musical heroes and his heavyweight literary feuds. Richard Ford once spat at fellow novelist Colson Whitehead, and...
Jun 5, 2023 · Ford is among the elite American writers of the past half-century, and this book displays his gifts — the crunchy verbs, the crisp vision, the clocking of absurdities, the swift reasoning, his...
Jul 9, 2023 · Ford has written about American life through his character Frank Bascombe for nearly forty years though The Sportswriter to Independence Day and Lay of the Land.
