| The Sportswriter | |
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Cover to the first edition |
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| Author(s) | Richard Ford |
| Cover artist | Lorraine Louie (design), Rick Lovell (illustration) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Vintage |
| Publication date | March 1986 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 375 pp |
| ISBN | 0394743253 |
| OCLC Number | 13093238 |
| Dewey Decimal | 813/.54 19 |
| LC Classification | PS3556.O713 S6 1986 |
| Followed by | Independence Day |
The Sportswriter is a 1986 novel by Richard Ford. It is about a failed novelist turned sportswriter who undergoes an existential crisis following the death of his son. In 1995, it was followed by a sequel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Independence Day. A third installment The Lay of the Land followed in 2006.
The book is being made into a six-hour HBO miniseries.[1]
The novel became Ford's "breakout book" and was named one of Time magazine's five best books of 1986 and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2005, Time also named it one of the 100 best novels in English from the preceding 82 years.[2]