Richard Russo

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For the science fiction writer, see Richard Paul Russo.

Richard Russo (born July 15 1949, in Johnstown, New York and raised in nearby Gloversville, New York) is an American novelist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. He earned a bachelor's degree (1967), a master's in fine arts (1980), and a Ph.D. (1979) from the University of Arizona.

His novel Empire Falls, published in 2001, won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He has written four other novels: Mohawk, The Risk Pool, Nobody's Fool, and Straight Man, as well as a short story collection, The Whore's Child. Russo collaborated on the film Twilight with Robert Benton, who also adapted and directed Russo's Nobody's Fool in 1994. Russo wrote the teleplay for the HBO adaptation of Empire Falls, and the screenplay for the 2005 film Ice Harvest.

Bibliography

External links

• [Author interview at failbetter.com]
• [Author interview at identitytheory.com]

 

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