Richard Ford
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OverviewAI-generated
Richard Ford is an American male artist and author born in 1944. His musical career, which began in 1976, encompasses genres including boogie, country, country boogie, country gospel, and gospel. He is also associated with ambient, chillout, new age, lounge, and easy listening styles. His recorded music has accumulated 4,658 plays and 300 listeners.
As an author, Ford has produced 133 works, including *Yom ha-ʻatsmaʾut*, *Privacy*, *Katav-sporṭ*, *The General*, and *The sportswriter*. His literary contributions have been recognized in the Pulitzer Prize collection and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. His writing is referenced by 438 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1944
- Works
- 133
Top works
- Yom ha-ʻatsmaʾut
- Privacy
- Katav-sporṭ
- The General
- The sportswriter
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1919-02-13
- Active to
- 1991-10-17
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 300
- Total plays
- 4,658
Tags
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Richard+Ford">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data
· 1977 · cited 63,391x
- The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
· 2009 · cited 59,258x
- Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform
· 2009 · cited 47,665x
- ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database
· 2009 · cited 47,311x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,635x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “One day you think you never even made a choice and then you have to make one, even a wrong one, just so you're sure you're still able. And once that's over, you can go back and be happy again with what you were before you started worrying.”
- “Sometimes we do not really become adults until we suffer a good whacking loss, and our lives in a sense catch up with us and wash over us like a wave and everything goes.”
- “I may be too cynical," Catherine says.”
- “In the fall of 1960, when I was sixteen and my father was for a time not working, my mother met a man named Warren Miller and fell in love with him.”
- “"I'm not worried," I said. And I wasn't, because I thought things would be fine. And even though I was wrong, it is still not so bad a way to set your mind toward the unknown just when you are coming into the face of it.”
- “It's probably nice to know your parents were once not your parents.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1944-02-16 ) February 16, 1944 (age 82) , Jackson, Mississippi , U.S.
- Occupation
- Novelist , short story writer
- Nationality
- American
- Education
- Michigan State University ( BA ), University of California, Irvine ( MFA )
- Period
- 1976–present
- Genre
- Literary fiction
- Literary movement
- Minimalism , Dirty realism
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Ford's first collection of short stories, Rock Springs, was published in 1987.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Richard Ford” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.