Richard Russo
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Richard Russo (born July 15 1949 in Johnstown, New York) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist. Born in Johnstown and raised in nearby Gloversville, he earned a Bachelor's degree, a Master of Fine Arts degree, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Arizona, which he attended from 1967 through 1979.[1] He was teaching in the English department at Southern Illinois University Carbondale when his first novel, Mohawk was published. Much of his work has been semi-autobiographical, from his upbringing in upstate New York to his time teaching Literature at Colby College. 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 25 September 2007 and Random House released his most recent novel, That Old Cape Magic, on 4 August 2009.
Russo is now retired from the faculty of Colby College.[2]
[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
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- Richard Russo at the Internet Movie Database
- Author interview at failbetter.com
- Author interview at identitytheory.com
- Audio interview from the Maine Humanities Council
- Audio recording of Russo reading a chapter of That Old Cape Magic from the Maine Humanities Council and the Portland Public Library
- Author interview at powells.com
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.identitytheory.com/people/birnbaum20.html 2001 interview with Robert Birnbaum, published in identity theory, an online magazine
- ^ ""Richard Russo"". New York State Writers Institute, State University of New York. 2002. http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/russo_richard.html. Retrieved 2007-03-20.
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