1. Richard Ford was born on February 16,1944 and is an American novelist and short story author, and writer of a series of novels featuring the character Frank Bascombe.
15 Facts About Richard Ford
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In 2018, Richard Ford received the Park Kyong-ni Prize, an international literary award from South Korea.
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Richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi, the only son of Parker Carrol and Edna Richard Ford.
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Richard Ford's father died of a second heart attack in 1960.
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In Jackson, Richard Ford lived across the street from the home of author Eudora Welty.
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At the age of 19, before deciding to attend college, Richard Ford began work on the Missouri Pacific train line as a locomotive engineer's assistant, learning the work while doing the job.
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Richard Ford briefly attended law school but quit and participated with the creative writing program at the University of California, Irvine, to pursue a Master of Fine Arts degree, which he received in 1970.
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Doctorow were teaching there and Richard Ford has acknowledged they influenced him.
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Richard Ford published his first novel, A Piece of My Heart, the story of two unlikely drifters whose paths cross on an island in the Mississippi River, during 1976, and followed it with The Ultimate Good Luck during 1981.
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Richard Ford edited the 1990 The Best American Short Stories, the 1992 Granta Book of the American Short Story, the Fall 1996 "fiction issue" of Ploughshares, and the 1998 Granta Book of the American Long Story.
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Richard Ford ended the 1990s with a well-received collection of short stories, Women With Men, published during 1997.
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Richard Ford lived for many years in New Orleans in the French Quarter, on lower Bourbon Street then in the Garden District of the same city, where his wife, Kristina, was the executive director of the city planning commission.
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Richard Ford obtained a teaching appointment at Bowdoin College during 2005 but kept the job for only one semester.
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Richard Ford began publishing his short stories in the 1980s, which corresponded with an American renaissance in the short story that centered around Raymond Carver.
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Richard Ford once sent Alice Hoffman a copy of one of her books with bullet holes in it after she angered him by unfavorably reviewing The Sportswriter.