1. Richard Ford - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is a Pulitzer Prizewinning American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ford

Richard Ford From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search For the English writer (1796-1858), see Richard Ford (writer) This article does not cite any references or sources (March 2007) Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed. Richard Ford Born February 16 Jackson, Mississippi Occupation Novelist ... short story writer Nationality United States Writing period - present Genres Literary fiction Literary movement Dirty realism Debut works A Piece of My Heart Richard Ford (born February 16 ) is a Pulitzer Prize -winning American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel The Sportswriter and its sequels, Independence Day and The Lay of the Land , and the widely anthologized story collection Rock Springs Contents Early life Later Life and Works Quotes Bibliography ... edit Early life Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi , the only son of a traveling salesman for Faultless Starch , a Kansas City company. When Ford was eight years old, his father had a major heart attack , and thereafter Ford spent as much time with his grandfather, a former prizefighter and hotel owner in Arkansas , as he did with his parents in Mississippi. Ford’s father died of a second heart attack in 1960.

2. Salon: Richard Ford Richard Ford, whose novel Independence Day was the first ever to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the Pen/Faulkner Award and had just about every critic in http://www.salon.com/weekly/interview960708.html

Richard Ford By SOPHIE MAJESKI Illustration by Zach Trenholm R ichard Ford, whose novel "Independence Day" was the first ever to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the Pen/Faulkner Award and had just about every critic in America breathing words like "mastery," "genius" and "tour de force," once told an interviewer that "writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married." Much has been made of his habit of moving around his most recent home is on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, where his wife of 28 years, Kristina, is executive director of the city planning commission and "Independence Day" plays beautifully with the idea of impermanence. The novel is the sequel to Ford's highly acclaimed "The Sportswriter," which was the story of a man named Frank Bascombe who, devastated by the death of his young son, dropped quietly out of his own life. In "Independence Day," Frank Bascombe more or less returns, moving into his ex-wife's old house, settling permanently after a fling in France with a woman some 20 years his junior into the suburbs to reconnect with his family and to sell real estate, which becomes for Bascombe a heady metaphor for the nature of attachment. He has moved into what he calls his "Existence Period," a tenuous equilibrium that seems to depend on keeping people and his own feelings at a comfortable remove. Over lunch in San Francisco at the beginning of a 15-city tour to promote the Vintage paperback edition of "Independence Day," Ford says that he personally prefers the sometimes disastrous habit of feeling to Bascombe's more defensive strategy. Attractive, intensely engaging, very funny, all soft Southern charm he was born in 1944 in Mississippi Ford asks for a quiet table, thinking of the tape recorder, and though he eloquently and cordially answers every question, no matter how personal or banal, he asks polite and probing questions of his own, including the first question of the interview.

3. Richard Ford Richard Ford biography, review of Independence Day, The Sportswriter, Wildfire, student writing. http://shs.starkville.k12.ms.us/mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/writers/Ford.html

Richard Ford The Mississippi Writers and Musicians Project of Starkville High School Major Works Biography of Richard Ford by Brandon Patton (SHS) Biography of Richard Ford by Park Zhou (SH S) ... Bibliography Major Works Novels A Piece of My Heart The Ultimate Good Luck Wildlife The Sportswriter Independence Day Short Story Collections Rock Springs Women with Men Collaborative Portfolio Privacy (with seven etchings by artist Jane Kent) Top Biography of Richard Ford by Brandon Patton (SHS) Richard Ford, a Mississippi writer who in 1996 won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature for Independence Day , was born in Jackson, Mississippi, on February 16, 1944. While growing up, Richard went to Davis Elementary, the same elementary school Eudora Welty attended. He even had some of the same teachers! Interestingly, he also lived across the street from Eudora! Richard graduated from high school in Mississippi , then went on to get his B. A. from Michigan State University and his M. F. A. from the University of California. Ford wrote short stories for Esquire The Paris Review , and The New Yorker before completing his first novel

4. Richard Ford --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on Richard Ford Pulitzer Prizewinning American writer of novels and short stories. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9096418/Richard-Ford

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5. Auckland Writers & Readers Festival - Richard Ford Richard ford richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi. He has published four story collections, edited numerous others, and has written six acclaimed http://www.writersfestival.co.nz/authors/richardford.asp

@import "/css/generic.css"; @import "/css/styles.css"; @import "/css/level2.css"; About Us Contact Us Subscribe Support The Festival ... HOW TO BOOK Thursday 24 May 2007 - Sunday 27 May 2007 Home Authors 2007 Book List Internationals 2007 Book List New Zealanders ... Authors at a Glance Search Site Advanced Search Richard Ford Richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi. He has published four story collections, edited numerous others, and has written six acclaimed novels. The Sportswriter Independence Day Ford has also taught writing and literature at the University of Michigan and Princeton University. The third novel in the Bascombe series, The Lay of the Land , was published in October 2006 by Bloomsbury. Richard Ford lives in Maine. Author Articles and Reviews Interview in Salon Magazine Richard Ford writes an elgy for his home city, New Orleans in The Guardian The Lay of the Land reviewed in The New York Times Pretty Boy in See Richard Ford in: Friday Night with the Stars Friday 25 May An Hour with Richard Ford Saturday 26 May site: McGovern Sitemap

6. Ford: Richard Nixon Ford recommended to Congress that Nixon be paid $850000 in transition expenses, which upset public opinion. Congress allocated only $200000 to Nixon. http://www.lycos.com/info/ford--richard-nixon.html

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9. Kelly Writers House Fellows - Richard Ford Richard Ford reads from the openings to The Sportswriter, Independence Day, and portions of a new novel, The Lay of the Landa recording of the February 13 http://writing.upenn.edu/~whfellow/ford.html

The Kelly Writers House Fellows Program Richard Ford February 13-14, 2006 Richard Ford reads from the openings to The Sportswriter Independence Day , and portions of a new novel, The Lay of the Land a recording of the February 13, 2006 event introduced by Al Filreis and John Carroll streaming RealVideo file text of John Carroll introduction] Richard Ford in conversation with Al Filreis, February 14, 2006 ( streaming RealVideo file Click here for images from Richard Ford's visit. For several more photos, see the bottom of this page. "Richard Ford's power lies in the deceiving simplicity of his language, in the complexity of the emotions he explores, and in the extraordinary tenderness with which most of the people in his stories go about the solitary business of loving, and seeking love. His stories are exemplars of the form. For their clarity, for their unfailing grace, their intellectual beauty, they deserve to be celebrated." The 1995 Rea Award Committee A leading figure among American writers of the post-World War II generation, Richard Ford is the author of many novels, collections of short stories, and dramas. Independence Day (1995), the sequel to

10. Public Lectures At Princeton » Richard Ford Richard Ford, author of the recently published The Lay of the Land, won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature and the Penn/Faulkner Award in 1996 for http://lectures.princeton.edu/?p=67

11. Richard Ford Richard Ford. Richard Ford Born 16Feb-1944 Birthplace Jackson, MS. Gender Male Race or Ethnicity White Sexual orientation Straight http://www.nndb.com/people/251/000113909/

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Richard Ford Born: 16-Feb Birthplace: Jackson, MS Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Novelist Nationality: United States Executive summary: Independence Day Father: (d. 1960) Wife: Kristina Hensley (m. 1968) University: BA, Michigan State University (1966) Law School: Washington University Law School University: MFA, University of California at Irvine (1970) Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1996 for Independence Day PEN/Faulkner Award 1996 for Independence Day Guggenheim Fellowship NEA Fellowship NEA Fellowship Risk Factors: Dyslexia Author of books: A Piece of My Heart , novel) The Ultimate Good Luck , novel) The Sportswriter , novel) Rock Springs , short stories) Wildlife , novel) Independence Day , novel) Women with Men , short stories) A Multitude of Sins , short stories) Do you know something we don't? Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile

12. Richard Ford Richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1944 and raised in Jackson and Little Rock, Arkansas. He received his B.A. from Michigan State University http://www.reaaward.org/html/richard_ford.html

www.ReaAward.org References Salon.com's interview with Richard Ford Mississippi Writer's ... on Richard Ford Richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1944 and raised in Jackson and Little Rock, Arkansas. He received his B.A. from Michigan State University in 1966, where he studied literature and began to write stories. After a brief stint at Washington University in St. Louis, he went on to obtain his M.F.A. from the University of California at Irvine. He has taught at Princeton University, Williams College and the University of Michigan. Richard Ford has written five novels, A Piece of my Heart [1976], The Ultimate Good Luck [1981], The Sportswriter [1985], Wildlife [1990] and the critically acclaimed Independence Day [1995]. His collection of short stories, Rock Springs, appeared in 1987. Women with Men (Three stories) appeared in 1997. Ford wrote the screenplay for the film "Bright Angel," which was based on two stories from Rock Springs. The film starred Sam Shephard and was shot entirely on location in Montana. Paul Gray, writing in Time Magazine, said, " The Sportswriter established a glittering reputation. The stories in Rock Springs confirm it." Michiko Kakutani, reviewing Rock Springs in The New York Times, said, "Stunning this volume should confirm Ford's emergence as one of the most compelling and eloquent storytellers of his generation. Carolyn See, writing in the Los Angeles Times said, "There is a strange two-way mirror in America, Richard Ford reminds us. On our side, we see only ourselves. Over on 'their' side they wonder how they got there and long for 'just a normal life like other people had.' these stories are exquisitely written."

13. John Ford by Richard Franklin profile of film director John Ford. Richard Franklin with John ford richard Franklin with John Ford (1968) http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/02/ford.html

contents great directors cteq annotations top tens ... search John Ford b. Sean Aloysius O'Fearna b. Feb 1, 1895, Maine, USA d. August 31, 1973, Palm Desert, California, USA. by Richard Franklin Richard Franklin is an Australian producer, writer, director of Patrick Roadgames Psycho II Hotel Sorrento and the forthcoming Visitors Richard Franklin with John Ford filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources I read Senses of Cinema 's call for contributions on "Great Directors" with interest. Among the list of directors to be profiled were Cox (Paul) and Cronenberg (David), both of whom I've met. But among the list of those for whom you were looking for "expressions of interest" I noted Ford (John), who I am delighted to say I also met and who is quite simply the greatest director of all time. Why did Cronenberg and Cox (contemporaries of my own) get a look in before the man who Ingmar Bergman called the greatest director who ever lived? Why is Ford's work seldom studied, when that of say Hitchcock is dissected in film class after film class? Because the great, great, great John Ford made so many films (and so many great films) his canon is virtually unassailable. I repeat myself in keeping with Orson Welles who after viewing Stagecoach (1939) 40 times before embarking on Citizen Kane (1941) said he was influenced by the old guys; the "classical" film makers, by which he meant "John Ford, John Ford and John Ford". If the pantheon of classical music is "the three Bs" (Bach, Beethoven and Brahms), then it is arguable there is only one true great in cinema - and that's the man who won more Academy Awards (five) than anyone before or since.

14. DBLP: Richard Ford Richard Ford. List of publications from the DBLP Bibliography Server FAQ 2 EE, Richard Ford May you live in interesting times. http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/f/Ford:Richard.html

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15. Michigan Writers Collection - Richard Ford Richard Ford is the author of the widely admired collection of short stories, Rock Springs; another collection of stories, Women with Men Three Stories; http://specialcollections.lib.msu.edu/html/materials/collections/michcoll/ford.h

Richard Ford Richard Ford is the author of the widely admired collection of short stories, Rock Springs ; another collection of stories, Women with Men: Three Stories ; the novella, The Womanizer ; and five novels: A Piece of My Heart The Ultimate Good Luck Wildlife The Sportswriter and Independence Day . In 1995, Independence Day was selected as the MSU Libraries' four millionth volume. That same year Richard Ford won the Pulitzer Prize as well as the Pen/Faulkner Award for that novel. His most recent work, A Multitude of Sins , is a collection of short stories. In addition, he has also served as editor for The Granta Book of American Short Stories Eudora Welty: Stories, Essays, and Memoirs , and The Essential Tales of Chekhov . His many stories and essays have appeared in such magazines and journals as Granta The New Yorker Michigan Quarterly TriQuarterly The Best American Essays The Best American Short Stories , and The Best American Sports Writing Richard Ford came to MSU from Mississippi as a student in 1962, graduating with a B.A. in English in 1966. After brief enrollment in law school, he turned to writing fiction and received his M.F.A. from the writing program at University of California, Irvine. In addition to his steady production of fiction, Ford has also taught writing and literature at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Princeton University, and Williams College. A resident of Maine and Louisiana, Ford is a frequent visitor back to East Lansing. In 1997, he received MSU's Distinguished Alumni Award for his outstanding literary accomplishments. His papers and manuscripts are located in Special Collections where they are available for use.

16. MWP: Richard Ford (1944-   ) Information about writer richard ford, including a biographical and critical article, a list of published works, and other information resources. http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/ford_richard/

Go to Publications Media Adaptations Bibliography Internet Resources See also: Book Info: The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (November 2007) The Lay of the Land (July 2007) The Lay of the Land (October 2006) The Granta Book of the American Long Story (February 2003) Juke Joint (December 2002) A Multitude of Sins: Stories (February 2002) Conversations with Richard Ford (November 2001) The Granta Book of the American Long Story (July 1999) Women with Men: Three Stories (May 1998) Women with Men: Three Stories (June 1997) The Fights (December 1996) Home Browse Listings Authors Printer friendly view Richard Ford Richard Ford Richard Ford is a Southern, non-Southern author. Ford was born and grew up in Mississippi, but apart from A Piece of My Heart , his books are not set in the South. Not only does he not write about the South, but in an interview in

17. Ford, Richard Includes a resume, hobbies, a webcam, and projects. http://www.malware.org/

Home About Me Research Teaching ... Contact Welcome to malware.org As you can see, I've redesigned the website again. A lot of "stuff" is under construction, and some things are down during the rebuild (most notably, the photo galleries). Until then, please pardon the dust, and feel free to browse around. Richard Home About R esearch ... Contact

18. Powells.com Interviews - Richard Ford One on One with richard ford Dave Weich, Powells.com Before richard ford published Independence Day, the first novel to win both the Pulitzer Prize and http://www.powells.com/authors/ford.html

@import url(/css/combined_css.css); @import url(/css/sections.css); Skip navigation Browse Sections Bestsellers New Arrivals ... Kevin Young Find Books Award Winners Book Clubs Hosted Bookshelves Harry Potter ... Staff Picks Read the City Author Interviews Original Essays Fup. Store Cat. Review-a-Day ... Blog Win Free Books! Daily Dose PowellsBooks.news January 16, 2008 Archived Editions More newsletters Technica January 10, 2008 Archived Editions More newsletters PowellsBooks.kids January 23, 2008 Archived Editions More newsletters Read an original essay by Shalom Auslander and save 30% on Foreskin's Lament: A Memoir Hardcover Read an original essay by Tim Harford and save 30% on The Logic of Life Hardcover One on One with Richard Ford Dave Weich , Powells.com Before Richard Ford published Independence Day , the first novel to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, he twice read its seven hundred pages aloud to his wife, correcting rhythmical miscues and shades of connotation. Such are the lengths to which an author will go so readers meeting his sentences on the page will "think exactly what I imagine they would think." The son of a traveling salesman, Ford spent much of his youth living in an Arkansas hotel managed by his grandfather. After publishing two modestly successful novels he turned away from literature and tried sportswriting, instead, working for

19. Richard Ford - Authors - Random House The author of five earlier novels and three collections of stories, richard ford was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Independence http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=9005

20. US Dept Of State - Publications richard ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1944, and was raised there and in Little Rock, Arkansas. He attended public schools, Michigan State http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/writers/ford.htm

USINFO Publications WRITERS ON AMERICA Introduction Elmaz Abinader Just off Main Street Julia Alvarez Sven Birkerts The Compulsory Power of American Dreams Robert Olen Butler A Postcard from America Michael Chabon Maps and Legends Billy Collins What's American About American Poetry? Robert Creeley America's American David Herbert Donald On Being an American Historian Richard Ford How Does Being an American Inform What I Write? Linda Hogan For Life's Sake Mark Jacobs Both Sides of the Border Charles Johnson An American Milk Bottle Bharati Mukherjee On Being an American Writer Naomi Shihab Nye This Crutch That I Love Robert Pinsky A Provincial Sense of Time How Does Being an American Inform What I Write? by Richard Ford Richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1944, and was raised there and in Little Rock, Arkansas. He attended public schools, Michigan State University, The University of California, and Washington University Law School. He is the author of five novels, including The Sportswriter Wildlife , and Independence Day , and three books of stories, including Rock Springs and A Multitude of Sins . He has written many essays, and is a frequent contributor to

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