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Richard Ford


Born
in Jackson, Mississippi, The United States
February 16, 1944

Genre
Literature & Fiction

Influences
Eudora Welty, William Faulkner ...more


Richard Ford, born February 16, 1944 in Jackson, Mississippi, 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. Comparisons have been drawn between Ford's work and the writings of John Updike, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway and Walker Percy.

His novel Independence Day won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1996, also winning the PEN/Faulkner Award in the same year. ...more

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Average rating: 3.72 · 105,161 ratings · 10,926 reviews · 237 distinct works • Similar authors
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3.53 avg rating — 28,032 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions
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The Sportswriter (Frank Bas...
3.69 avg rating — 20,172 ratings — published 1986 — 94 editions
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Independence Day (Frank Bas...
3.86 avg rating — 16,748 ratings — published 1995 — 111 editions
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Rock Springs
4.06 avg rating — 5,760 ratings — published 1987 — 61 editions
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Let Me Be Frank With You
3.65 avg rating — 5,550 ratings — published 2014 — 56 editions
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The Lay of the Land (Frank ...
3.92 avg rating — 4,862 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions
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Wildlife
3.72 avg rating — 4,480 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions
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Between Them: Remembering M...
3.73 avg rating — 3,203 ratings — published 2017 — 43 editions
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Be Mine
3.96 avg rating — 2,292 ratings — published 2023 — 25 editions
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Women With Men: 3 Stories
3.64 avg rating — 1,907 ratings — published 1997
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“Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.”
― Richard Ford
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“What's friendship's realest measure?
I'll tell you. The amount of precious time you'll squander on someone else's calamities and fuck-ups.”
― Richard Ford
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“People surprise you, Frank, with just how fuckin stupid they are.”
― Richard Ford, The Sportswriter
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