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Richard Ford (1)

This page covers the author of Independence Day.

For other authors named Richard Ford, see the disambiguation page.

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He was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1944 & grew up there & in Little Rock, Arkansas. He graduated from Michigan State University & received an M. F. A. in 1970 from the University of California at Irvine. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts & American Academy of Arts & Letters Award for Literature. He was also given the 1994 Rea Award. In 2001 he was awarded the PEN/Malamud prize. He made The New York Times Best Seller List for his title's Canada and Let Me Be Frank with You. He was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with his title, Let Me Be Frank With You. (Publisher Provided) — biography from Independence Day… (more)
Independence Day 3,029 copies, 47 reviews
The Sportswriter 2,862 copies, 61 reviews
Canada 2,251 copies, 133 reviews
The Lay of the Land 1,631 copies, 32 reviews
Rock Springs: Stories 982 copies, 11 reviews
Women with Men 736 copies, 7 reviews
Let Me Be Frank With You 684 copies, 34 reviews
Wildlife 675 copies, 14 reviews
A Multitude of Sins 664 copies, 3 reviews
The Granta Book of the American Short Story (Editor) 361 copies, 1 review
A Piece of My Heart 305 copies, 3 reviews
Sorry for Your Trouble: Stories 148 copies, 11 reviews
Be Mine 78 copies, 5 reviews
Vintage Ford 46 copies, 2 reviews
My Mother, in Memory 19 copies, 1 review
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Flores en las grietas 8 copies, 2 reviews
Good Raymond 5 copies
Valpen 3 copies
Revolutionary Road (Foreword, some editions) 6,666 copies, 243 reviews
Light Years (Introduction, some editions) 1,155 copies, 31 reviews
My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead (Contributor) 749 copies, 20 reviews
The Best American Short Stories 2002 (Contributor) 453 copies, 3 reviews
Baseball: A Literary Anthology (Contributor) 323 copies, 4 reviews
The essential tales of Chekhov (Introduction; Editor) 321 copies, 4 reviews
100 Years of The Best American Short Stories (Contributor) 261 copies, 3 reviews
Christmas Stories 240 copies, 1 review
Why I Write: Thoughts on the Craft of Fiction (Contributor) 183 copies, 4 reviews
The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology (Contributor) 174 copies, 3 reviews
The Best American Essays 1997 (Contributor) 149 copies, 1 review
Granta 21: The Story-Teller (Contributor) 149 copies, 1 review
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Granta 62: What Young Men Do (Contributor) 140 copies, 2 reviews
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Granta 40: The Womanizer (Contributor) 113 copies, 3 reviews
The Best American Essays 1989 (Contributor) 97 copies, 1 review
Granta 15: The Fall of Saigon (Contributor) 96 copies, 1 review
The Best American Short Stories 1986 (Contributor) 94 copies
Granta 19: More Dirt (Contributor) 76 copies
The Ecco Book of Christmas Stories (Contributor) 71 copies, 2 reviews
Granta 8: Dirty Realism (Contributor) 71 copies
Great Esquire Fiction (Contributor) 70 copies, 1 review
What's Your Story? Postcard Collection (Contributor) 60 copies, 3 reviews
Novel Voices (Contributor) 54 copies
Writers on writing (Contributor) 28 copies
The Best of Montana's Short Fiction (Contributor) 20 copies
The Fights (Introduction, some editions) 15 copies
Mississippi Writers: An Anthology (Contributor) 14 copies
The Paris Review 167 2003 Fall (Contributor) 12 copies
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