Richard Ford was born on February 16, 1944 in Jackson, Mississippi.
He has written novels, short stories, and screenplays. He has taught at a number of universities and is the editor of several short story anthologies.
Ford has won numerous awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship in 1977, the National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in 1978 and 1983, a New York Public Library Literary Lion award and an American Academy award in 1989, the Echoing Green Foundation award in 1991, and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1997.
His Frank Bascombe trilogy is comprised of the novels The Sportswriter, Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land.
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