Richard Russo

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For the science fiction writer, see Richard Paul Russo.

Richard Russo (born July 15, 1949) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist. Born in Johnstown, New York, and raised in nearby Gloversville, he earned a B.A. (1967), a M.F.A. (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 co-wrote the 1998 film Twilight with director Robert Benton, who also adapted and directed Russo's Nobody's Fool into a 1994 film of the same name. Russo wrote the teleplay for the HBO adaptation of Empire Falls and the screenplay for the 2005 film Ice Harvest.

Russo's new novel, The Bridge of Sighs is scheduled to be released on October 2, 2007: "What is the connection between a small town grocer who has never left his blighted home in upstate New York, and a famous expatriate painter who has bounced from one European capital to the next before settling in Venice? Richard Russo's new novel is both a meditation on destiny and a compelling portrait of two very different men and the woman who centers their imaginations. In their own way, each must cross The Bridge of Sighs."^{[citation needed]}

Russo, who lives in Maine and is retired from the faculty of Colby College,^[1] will soon begin work on another new novel with the characters from Nobody's Fool.

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(1986) Mohawk. NY: Vintage Books. ISBN 0-394-74409-8.
(1988) The Risk Pool. NY: Random House. ISBN 0-394-56527-4.
(1993) Nobody's Fool. NY: Random House. ISBN 0-394-57778-7.
(1997) Straight Man. NY: Random House. ISBN 0-679-43246-9.
(2001) Empire Falls. NY: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-679-43247-7.
(2002) The Whore's Child and Other Stories. NY: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-375-41168-2.
(2007) The Bridge of Sighs. NY: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-375-41495-9.