Richard Ford
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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.
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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.