Richard Russo
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Richard Russo (born July 15, 1949) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist. Born in Johnstown, New York, and raised in nearby Gloversville, he earned a B.A. (1967), an M.F.A. (1980), and a Ph.D. (1979) from the University of Arizona. He was teaching in the English department at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale when Mohawk was published. He now lives and writes in Camden, Maine.
His novel Empire Falls, published in 2001, won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He has written five other novels: Mohawk, The Risk Pool, Nobody's Fool, Straight Man, and Bridge of Sighs, as well as a short story collection, The Whore's Child. Russo co-wrote the 1998 film Twilight with director Robert Benton, who also adapted and directed Russo's Nobody's Fool into a 1994 film of the same name, starring Paul Newman. Russo wrote the teleplay for the HBO adaptation of Empire Falls, the screenplay for the 2005 film Ice Harvest and the screenplay for the 2005 Niall Johnson film Keeping Mum, which starred Rowan Atkinson. Russo's novel, Bridge of Sighs, was released on September 25, 2007.
Russo lives in Maine where he is retired from the faculty of Colby College.[1] Random House will release his new novel, That Old Cape Magic, on August 4, 2009.
[edit] Bibliography
- 1986 Mohawk (Vintage Books)
- 1988 The Risk Pool (Random House)
- 1993 Nobody's Fool (Random House)
- 1997 Straight Man (Random House)
- 2001 Empire Falls (Alfred A. Knopf)
- 2002 The Whore's Child and Other Stories (Alfred A. Knopf)
- 2007 Bridge of Sighs (Alfred A. Knopf)
- 2009 That Old Cape Magic (Random House)
[edit] External links
- Richard Russo at the Internet Movie Database
- Author interview at failbetter.com
- Author interview at identitytheory.com
- Audio interview from the Maine Humanities Council
- Author interview at powells.com
[edit] References
- ^ ""Richard Russo"". New York State Writers Institute, State University of New York. 2002. http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/russo_richard.html. Retrieved on 2007-03-20.
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