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Richard Russo (born July 15, 1949) is an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and teacher. In 2002, he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his novel Empire Falls. Several of his works have been adapted into television series and movies. 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. The subject of his doctoral dissertation was the works of the early American writer, historian and editor Charles Brockden Brown. Career Russo was teaching in the English department at Southern Illinois University Carbondale when his first novel, Mohawk, was published, in 1986. Much of his work is semi-autobiographical, drawing on his life from his upbringing in upstate New York to his time teaching literature at Colby College, where he retired from in 1996 to pursue writing full-time.His 2001 novel Empire Falls received the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He has written nine other novels, a collection of short stories, and a memoir (Elsewhere). His short story "Horseman" was published in The Best American Short Stories 2007 edited by Stephen King and Heidi Pitlor. Besides his work as a book author, Russo along with director Robert Benton co-wrote the 1998 film Twilight, starring Paul Newman. He also wrote the screenplay for the 2005 film Ice Harvest and for the 2005 Niall Johnson film Keeping Mum, which starred Rowan Atkinson. Adaptations Director Robert Benton adapted Russo's 1993 novel Nobody's Fool as a 1994 film of the same title, starring Paul Newman, which Benton directed. Russo also wrote the teleplay for the HBO adaptation of his 2001 Pultizer Prize winning novel, Empire Falls. Russo's 1997 novel Straight Man was adapted by Paul Lieberstein and Aaron Zelman into a television show entitled Lucky Hank starring Bob Odenkirk for AMC. The series debuted on March 19, 2023 on AMC. Personal life Russo and his wife, Barbara, live in Portland, Maine, and spend winters in Boston. They have two daughters, Kate and Emily. Works Novels Mohawk (Vintage Books, 1986) The Risk Pool (Random House, 1988) Nobody's Fool (Random House, 1993) Straight Man (Random House, 1997) Empire Falls (Alfred A. Knopf, 2001) Bridge of Sighs (Alfred A. Knopf, 2007) That Old Cape Magic (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009) Everybody's Fool (Alfred A. Knopf, 2016) Chances Are... (Alfred A. Knopf, 2019) Somebody's Fool (Alfred A. Knopf, 2023)Short Stories The Whore's Child and Other Stories (Alfred A. Knopf, 2002) Interventions, with illustrator Kate Russo (Down East Books, 2012) Trajectory: Stories (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017) Sh*tshow (Vintage, 2020)Non-Fiction Elsewhere: A Memoir (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012) The Destiny Thief: Essays on Writing, Writers and Life (Alfred A. Knopf, 2018) Marriage Story, An American Memoir (Scribd, 2021)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) - based on his novel The Ice Harvest (with Robert Benton) (2005) Keeping Mum (with Niall Johnson) (2005) Lucky Hank (2023) (TV) - based on his novel Straight ManReferences External links 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 IMDb. Discover the Richard Russo popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Richard Russo books.
Best Seller Richard Russo Books of 2024
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Who I was Supposed To Be
Susan PeraboBehind every face in Who I Was Supposed to Be, Susan Perabo's incandescent, devilishly hilarious debut short story collection, there is something simmering, a singular quirk to exp...
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Rose Of Tralee
Katie FlynnThe year is 1925, and in Liverpool, Rose Ryder worships her father, a tramdriver. She nurses a secret dream of driving trams too, even though it's not considered a job for wome...
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Tales of Two Americas
John FreemanThirtysix major contemporary writers examine life in a deeply divided Americaincluding Anthony Doerr, Ann Patchett, Roxane Gay, Rebecca Solnit, Hector Tobar, Joyce Carol Oates, Edw...
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Chances Are . . .
Richard RussoA NATIONAL BESTSELLER from the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Empire Falls Three men in their late sixtiesold friends from college, each with a secretcome together on Martha’s Vi...
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The Essay
Robin YocumJimmy Lee Hickam grew up along Red Dog Road, a deadend strip of gravel and mud buried deep in the bowels of Appalachian Ohio. It is the poorest road, in the poorest county, in the ...
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Ohio
Stephen Markley & Charles RecourséGrand Prix de Littérature américaine 2020Palmarès Les 100 livres de l'année 2020 LireMagazine LittérairePar un fébrile soir d'été, quatre anciens camarades de lycée désormais...
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Blame
Michelle HunevenMichelle Huneven, Richard Russo once wrote, is "a writer of extraordinary and thrilling talent." That talent explodes with her third book, Blame, a spellbinding novel of guilt and ...
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Understanding Richard Russo
Kathleen DrowneIn Understanding Richard Russo Kathleen Drowne explores the significant themes and techniques in Richard Russo's seven novels, one memoir, and two short story collections, includin...
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Cactus Jack
Brad SmithA delight from paddock to finish line." Booklist (STARRED REVIEW) Brad Smith “rivals Elmore Leonard at his best” (Publishers Weekly). His latest novel, for fans of Richard Russo ...
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It Occurs to Me That I Am America
Jonathan SantloferA provocative, unprecedented anthology featuring original short stories on what it means to be an American from thirty bestselling and awardwinning authors with an introduction by ...
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Swimming with Bridgeport Girls
Anthony TambakisSwimming with Bridgeport Girls is an “outstanding debut…entertaining and sometimes sad, a superb portrait of a troubled but wisecracking gambler. Think Carl Hiaasen meets Fyodor Do...
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Love Changes Everything
Rosie HarrisFourteenyearold Trixie Jackson hoped she had a future to look forward to. But when she is sacked from the local factory she is forced to work as a housekeeper for one of her father...
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The Miss America Family
Julianna BaggottThe Miss America Family In this stunning followup to the acclaimed Girl Talk, a fading beautypageant veteran and her sixteenyearold son team up as the delightfully nimble cochroni...
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Northern Lights
Raymond StromA stunning debut novel set in the late 1990s“a powerful depiction of the currency of intolerance and addiction in one small town” (Kirkus Reviews)about an androgynous youth who arr...
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Collateral Damage
Mark ShawIf there had been no coverup of Robert Kennedy’s complicity in the murder of Marilyn Monroe in 1962 and he had been prosecuted based on compelling evidence at the time, the assassi...
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Particle Theory
Jonathan Gathorne-HardyTwo orphaned boys one Russian (Ivan), and one British (Michael) may or may not be brothers, Ivan is brought up brutally on the bleak rural steppes, while Michael is cosseted by hi...
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Fighting for Justice
Mark Shaw“Investigative reporting at its best. Mark Shaw’s original work into the questionable deaths of Marilyn Monroe and Dorothy Kilgallen is now focused on the many unanswered ques...
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The Helicopters Are Down
Indira Parthasarathy & Andy SundaresanHurtling towards a midlife crisis, Amirtham is down but not out. Caught in a sorry vortex of selfdenial and whatcouldhavebeen, the discontented government official wants to do the...
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Straight Man
Richard RussoHilarious and truetolife, witty, compassionate, and impossible to put down, Straight Man follows Hank Devereaux through one very bad week in this novel from the Pulitzer Prizewinni...
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100 Ways to Beat the Blues
Tanya Tucker"This book is like a good song; it will reach so many people right where they live." Tanya TuckerHow do you beat the blues? We all have moments in life when we're down, lonely, or ...
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Empire Falls
Richard RussoNATIONAL BESTSELLER PULITZER PRIZE WINNER The bestselling author of Nobody's Fool and Straight Man delves deep into the bluecollar heart of America in a work that overflows ...
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The Tangled Web
Michael J. Cain & Jack ClarkeThe Tangled Web tells the dramatic story of Detective Richard Cain, the man the FBI described as “possibly the most corrupt police official in the history of Chicago.” Cain led dou...
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Trajectory
Richard RussoThis dazzling collection of four stories features characters bound together by their parallel moments of reckoning with their pastsand proves the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Em...
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Gods of Wood and Stone
Mark Di IonnoTwo men from disparate worlds search for what constitutes a meaningful life in a searing portrait of honor and masculinity, sport and celebrity, marriage and parenthood in this “ro...
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A Gushing Fountain
Martin Walser & David DollenmayerAppearing for the first time in English, this masterful novel by one of the foremost figures of postwar German literature is an indelible portrait of Nazism slowly overtaking and p...