Richard Ford was born in 1944, Richard Ford has written at least 67 books. Their most popular book is The Sportswriter with 52 saves with an average rating of 3.6⭐.
They are best known for writing in the genres Fiction, Classics, and American fiction.
reflective, funny, and sad are their most common moods.
Richard Ford, born February 16, 1944 in Jackson, Mississippi, 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. Comparisons have been drawn between Ford's work and the writings of John Updike, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway and Walker Percy.
His novel Independence Day won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1996, also winning the PEN/Faulkner Award in the same year.
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4 primary booksAuthored 100% of series
Frank Bascombe is a 4-book series with 4 primary works first released in 1986 with contributions by Richard Ford.
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The Granta Book of the American Short Story is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 1993 with contributions by Richard Ford.
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Lonely Planet is a 15-book series first released in 1984 with contributions by Lonely Planet, Steve Fallon, and 27 others.
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Bright and Early Books is a 19-book series first released in 1958 with contributions by Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain, and 8 others.