Famous Like Me > Writer > R > Richard Russo
Profile of Richard Russo
on Famous Like Me |
| |
| Name: |
Richard Russo |
|
| |
|
| Also Know As: |
|
| |
|
| Date of Birth: |
15th July 1949 |
| |
|
| Place of Birth: |
Johnstown, New York, USA |
| |
|
| Profession: |
Writer |
| |
|
From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Richard Russo (born July 15, 1949, in Johnstown, 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. Russo wrote the teleplay for the HBO adaptation of Empire Falls, and the screenplay for the 2005 film Ice Harvest.
This content from
Wikipedia is licensed under the
GNU Free Documentation License.
It uses material from the Wikipedia article Richard Russo
|
This article about a US writer or poet is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.