Richard Ford

Writing

Born: 1944-02-16
From: Jackson, Mississippi, USA
Gender: Male
Popularity: 0.1

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.

Awards & Nominations10 won Β· 1 nominated

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Siegfried Lenz Prize

2018
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Princess of Asturias Literary Prize

2016
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Prix Femina Γ©tranger

2013
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Lucien Barrière Literary Award

2013
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Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

2012
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PEN/Malamud Award

2001
Nominated

British Fantasy Award for Best Anthology

The Granta Book of the American Long Story

1999
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Independence Day

1996
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PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

1996
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honorary doctor of the University of Rennes 2

1994
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Guggenheim Fellowship