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- This is no surprise from a writer who may have as great a claim as anyone now living to be called a Great American Novelist, who last year was awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction lifetime achievement award – and was the first writer to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the Pen/Faulkner Award in the same year, for his 1995 novel Independence Day.
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Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is an American novelist and short story author, and writer of a series of novels featuring the character Frank Bascombe. Ford's first collection of short stories, Rock Springs, was published in 1987. In the United States, Ford received the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for his novel Independence Day.
Apr 19, 2024 · Richard Ford, American writer of novels and short stories about lonely and damaged people. He won a Pulitzer Prize for Independence Day (1995), which was part of a trilogy centering on the character Frank Bascombe. Learn more about Ford’s life and work.
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Apr 28, 2017 · He has a reputation for writing clear-eyed, often lush prose, grappling with life’s great themes and for having an explosive temper. © David Wright. At a party once, he spat on Colson Whitehead...
May 23, 2018 · Richard Ford is best known for his two novels about Frank Bascombe, The Sportswriter (1986) and its Pulitzer Prize-winning sequel, Independence Day (1995). Both have been called "masterful works" that will ensure Ford's place as a great American writer.
May 12, 2017 · Richard Ford is a Pulitzer-Prize-winning American writer. He is best-known for his books following the life of Frank Bascombe, a divorced father, struggling writer, and real estate agent in...
Nov 9, 2019 · Culture. Richard Ford, who just won a prestigious literary award, once spat at Colson Whitehead. And the rest of the week’s best writing on books and related subjects. by Constance Grady. Nov...
Sep 26, 2017 · Ford received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature in 1989, and he published the short novel Wildlife in 1990. He received the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for his novel Independence Day (1995), and in 1998 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
