Richard Russo

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For the science fiction writer, see Richard Paul Russo.

Richard Russo (born July 15, 1949) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist. Born in Johnstown, New York, and raised in nearby Gloversville, he earned a B.A. (1967), an M.F.A. (1980), and a Ph.D. (1979) from the University of Arizona. Now lives and writes in Camden, Maine.

His novel Empire Falls, published in 2001, won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He has written five other novels: Mohawk, The Risk Pool, Nobody's Fool, Straight Man, and Bridge of Sighs, as well as a short story collection, The Whore's Child. Russo co-wrote the 1998 film Twilight with director Robert Benton, who also adapted and directed Russo's Nobody's Fool into a 1994 film of the same name, starring Paul Newman. Russo wrote the teleplay for the HBO adaptation of Empire Falls and the screenplay for the 2005 film Ice Harvest.

Russo's most recent novel, Bridge of Sighs, was released on September 25, 2007.

Russo, who lives in Maine and is retired from the faculty of Colby College,^[1] will soon begin work on a new novel involving the characters from Nobody's Fool.

[edit] Works

• 1986 Mohawk (Vintage Books)
• 1988 The Risk Pool (Random House)
• 1993 Nobody's Fool (Random House)
• 1997 Straight Man (Random House)
• 2001 Empire Falls (Alfred A. Knopf)
• 2002 The Whore's Child and Other Stories (Alfred A. Knopf)
• 2007 Bridge of Sighs (Alfred A. Knopf)

[edit] External links

• Richard Russo at the Internet Movie Database
• Author interview at failbetter.com
• Author interview at identitytheory.com
• Audio interview from the Maine Humanities Council

[edit] References

1. ^ "Richard Russo". New York State Writers Institute, State University of New York (2002). Retrieved on 2007-03-20.

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NAME	Russo, Richard
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SHORT DESCRIPTION	Novelist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 15, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH	Johnstown, New York
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH