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Richard Ford

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Biography

Name: Richard Ford
Birth Date: February 16, 1944
Nationality: American
Gender: Male

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Biography of Richard Ford
8,062 words, approx. 27 pages
Richard Ford's place in American letters has been established by his five novels, and many critics consider him one of the finest contemporary short-story writers as well. While he is often discussed as a "regionalist" author, Ford rejects that...


Quotations
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Richard Ford Quotes
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Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Ford, Richard
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(born Feb. 16, 1944, Jackson, Miss., U.S.) U.S. novelist and short-story writer. His first novel, A Piece of My Heart (1976), showed the influence of William Faulkner. The Sportswriter (1986) and its sequel, Independence Day (1995, Pulitzer Prize),...
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Richard Ford Information
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Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) 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...


News and Journals
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The Mississippi Quarterly
Richard Ford.(Book Review)
09/22/2003: 1,353 words, approx. 5 pages
Richard Ford, by Elinor Ann Walker. New York: Twayne, 2000. xiii, 226 pp. $33.00 cloth. IN THIS MONOGRAPH, ELINOR ANN WALKER develops two themes that are particularly useful perspectives on Richard Ford: his fiction's fraught relation to "Southern literature," and his career-long...
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The Southern Review
A conversation with Richard Ford. (author)(Interview)
06/22/1998: 5,566 words, approx. 19 pages
Author Richard Ford relies on the interplay between people to develop characters in his works. Ford examines how people communicate and act in specific situations, and uses these instances to build interaction, reveal personality and demonstrate thought processes. To intensify these aspects for the...
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AP News
Short stories honored by Updike, others
4/12/2007: 552 words, approx. 2 pages
Cynthia Ozick stood before a full house of literary fans, her white hair shining as she assessed an art form that could be likened to an old, but vital patriarch _ rich, historic and, the author feared, increasingly neglected.The short story."In serious mainstream magazines nowadays,...
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The New York Observer
Tuesday: Everyone Always Blames the Brooklyn Jews
8/22/2006: 307 words, approx. 1 pages
Hard out here for the Orthodox NYU says Borough Park is the most crowded neighborhood in New York, on account of big Orthodox families squeezing into small houses. Meanwhile, prices are so high in Williamsburg that hundreds of local Hassidim are fleeing for the...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Elinor Ann Walker
10,740 words, approx. 36 pages
In the following essay, Walker explores the ways in which the three stories included in Women with Men incorporate as a theme the condition of loneliness and its perpetuation.
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Critical Essay by Priscilla Leder
9,384 words, approx. 31 pages
In the following essay, Leder investigates notions of gender in Ford's Rock Springs, paying particular attention to the concept of voice.
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Interview by Richard Ford, Jennifer Levasseur, and Kevin Rabalais
8,877 words, approx. 30 pages
In the following interview, begun on June 3, 1998, and continued on December 4, 1998, Ford discusses his writing process, his literary influences, and the role of the writer in American society.
 


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