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Richard Ford

USA  (1944 - )
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About Richard Ford
Richard Ford is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel The Sportswriter and its sequels, Independence Day and The Lay of the Land, and the widely anthologized story collection Rock Springs.

Ford lived for many years in the French Quarter and then in the Garden District of New Orleans, Louisiana, where his wife Kristina was the executive director of the city planning commission. He now lives in Maine where he teaches at Bowdoin College.
 
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Dream State
Dream State (1995)
Moira Crone
"These are intelligent, satisfying, and often extremely witty stories."
Storm Riders
Storm Riders (2000)
Craig Lesley
"Storm Riders is an exacting, serious and generous novel. Its great virtue is that it's wise as well as clear-sighted in its faith in human beings. As I read I continually felt (as I rarely do) that this book could be about me."
Great Dream of Heaven
Great Dream of Heaven (2002)
Sam Shepard
"These stories are irresistible."
A Student of Living Things
A Student of Living Things (2006)
Susan Shreve
"Stylish and sleek and tightly configured... steeped in our incongruities and potent mysteries - most especially those of the heart."
Cryers Hill
Cryers Hill (2007)
Kitty Aldridge
"Mercurial, deft and wondrous in its sentences and uncanny descriptions. Grave, knowing, melancholy, often extremely funny and ultimately optimistic."
February
February (2010)
Lisa Moore
"An astonishing writer."



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