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Richard Ford

Writing•Born February 16, 1944 (age 82)•Jackson, Mississippi, USA

Biography

Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) 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. Ford received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1996 for Independence Day. Ford's novel Wildlife was adapted into a 2018 film of the same name. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Ford, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.