Richard Ford
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Jackson, Mississippi, USA
Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is an American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel The Sportswriter and its sequels, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land and Let Me Be Frank With You, and the short story collection Rock Springs, which contains several widely anthologized stories. Ford received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1996 for Independence Day.…
Known for
- Babel — Himself2014
- Lesenswert — Self2013
- Q&A — Self - Panellist2008
- Raymond Carver: Dreams Are What You Wake Up From — Self1989
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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
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Richard
- Family name
- Ford
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Jackson
- Occupation
- short story writer
- Employer
- University of Mississippi
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Oliver Mark - Richard Ford, Berlin 2002.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1944-02-16
- member of
- Royal Society of Literature
- Commons category
- Richard Ford
- start of work period
- 1976-00-00
- writing language
- English language
- medical condition
- dyslexia
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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.