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Richard Russo
Born
Richard Russo
July 15, 1949 (1949-07-15) (age 62)
Johnstown, New York
Occupation
Novelist, Screenwriter, Short-Story Writer
Nationality
American
Education
University of Arizona
Notable work(s)
Empire Falls, Nobody's Fool, Straight Man
Notable award(s)
2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Richard Russo (born July 15, 1949) is an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and teacher.
Contents
1 Early life and education
2 Career
3 Bibliography
4 Filmography
5 External links
6 References
[edit] Early life and education
Russo was born in Johnstown, New York, and raised in nearby Gloversville. He earned a Bachelor's degree, a Master of Fine Arts degree, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Arizona, which he attended from 1967 through 1979.[1]
[edit] Career
He was teaching in the English department at Southern Illinois University Carbondale when his first novel, Mohawk, was published in 1986. Much of his work has been semi-autobiographical, drawing on his life from his upbringing in upstate New York to his time teaching literature at Colby College (subsequently retired).[2] He now lives and writes in Camden, Maine.
His 2001 novel Empire Falls received the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He has written six other novels and a short story collection. Russo co-wrote the 1998 film Twilight with director Robert Benton, who also adapted and directed Russo's Nobody's Fool into a 1994 film of the same title, starring Paul Newman. Russo wrote the teleplay for the HBO adaptation of Empire Falls, the screenplay for the 2005 film Ice Harvest, and the screenplay for the 2005 Niall Johnson film Keeping Mum, which starred Rowan Atkinson.
[edit] Bibliography
Mohawk (1986) (Vintage Books)
The Risk Pool (1988) (Random House)
Nobody's Fool (1993) (Random House)
Straight Man (1997) (Random House)
Empire Falls (2001) (Alfred A. Knopf)
The Whore's Child and Other Stories (2002) (Alfred A. Knopf)
Bridge of Sighs (2007) (Alfred A. Knopf)
That Old Cape Magic (2009) (Random House)
[edit] Filmography
Monsters (1989) (TV)
Nobody's Fool (1994) (based on his novel)
Twilight (with Robert Benton) (1998)
The Flamingo Rising (2001) (TV)
Brush with Fate (2003) (TV)
Empire Falls (2005) (TV)
The Ice Harvest (with Robert Benton) (2005)
Keeping Mum (with Niall Johnson) (2005) (TV)
[edit] External links
Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Richard Russo
Audio recording of Russo reading a chapter of That Old Cape Magic from the Maine Humanities Council and the Portland Public Library
Richard Russo at the Internet Movie Database
[edit] References
^ Birnbaum, Robert (2001). "Interview: Richard Russo". identity theory. http://www.identitytheory.com/people/birnbaum20.html. Retrieved June 7, 2010.
^ "Richard Russo". New York State Writers Institute, State University of New York. 2002. Archived from the original on 2007-02-19. http://web.archive.org/web/20070219000109/http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/russo_richard.html. Retrieved 2007-03-20.
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (2001)
Empire Falls by Richard Russo (2002)
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (2003)
The Known World by Edward P. Jones (2004)
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (2005)
March by Geraldine Brooks (2006)
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2007)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Daz (2008)
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (2009)
Tinkers by Paul Harding (2010)
A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (2011)
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Novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, teacher
Date of birth
July 15, 1949
Place of birth
Johnstown, New York, United States
Date of death
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