Ford, Richard, 1944-

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)
פורד, ריצ'רד, 1944-
Name (Latin)
Ford, Richard, 1944-
Date of birth
1944-02-16
Occupation
Novelists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 109503268
Wikidata: Q547794
Library of congress: n 80113050
HAI10: 000105519
Sources of Information
  • A piece of my heart, c1976.
  • Richard Ford and the fiction of masculinities, 2010:ECIP data view (author of six novels and three collections of short stories; the recipient of the PEN/Faulkner Award for The Sportswriter (1986), the Pulitzer Prize for Independence Day (1995), as well as the PEN/Malamud Prize for short fiction)
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Wikipedia description:

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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