Richard Ford
American author
82 years oldAquariusUnited States
Biography
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. In Spain, he won the Princess of Asturias Award for 2016. In 2018, Ford received the Park Kyong-ni Prize, an international literary award from South Korea.
His novel Wildlife was adapted into a 2018 film of the same name, and in 2023 Ford published Be Mine, his fifth work of fiction chronicling the life of Frank Bascombe.
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Career highlights
Employers / organisations
- Bowdoin College
- Columbia University
- University of Mississippi
Notable works
- Wildlife
- Rock Springs
- Canada
Awards & honours (11)
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
- Prix Femina étranger
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- PEN/Malamud Award
- Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize
- Siegfried Lenz Prize
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
- Princess of Asturias Literary Prize
- honorary doctor of the University of Rennes 2
- Lucien Barrière Literary Award
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- Richard Ford is 82 years old (born February 16, 1944).
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- Richard Ford was born in Jackson.
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- Richard Ford's zodiac sign is Aquarius.
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- Richard Ford is a citizen of United States.
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