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Richard Ford

Richard Ford is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and one of the United States’ most respected authors. A B.A. recipient from Michigan State University, Ford enjoyed critical acclaim with his breakout hit “The Sportswriter,” which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The book was selected as one of Time Magazine’s five best books of 1986. The sequel to that novel, “Independence Day,” became the first novel to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1995. “The Lay of the Land,” the third and final book in the trilogy, brought the story of failed-novelist-turned-sportswriter Frank Bascombe to a rousing close in 2006.

Ford’s writing is lyrical, poignant and full of action. His short story collections, including “Rock Springs,” “Women with Men” and A Multitude of Sins,” contain numerous widely anthologized stories and have earned him the PEN Malamud Award for the Short Story. To date, his novels have been translated into 25 languages.

A native of Mississippi, the author currently lives in East Boothbay, Maine with his wife Kristina Ford.

Ford appeared with the National Writers Series on June 2, 2011.