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Richard Russo grew up in a small upstate New York town. His experience in Gloversville as a child have shaped his writing allowing him to accurately depict small town America.
Praise for Richard Russo
“There is a big, wry heart beating at the center of Russo’s fiction” —The New Yorker
“Nobody does small-town life better than Richard Russo.” — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Russo is one of the best novelists around.” — New York Times Book Review
Author reads from Huck Finn
Bibliography
Empire Falls
Mohawk
The Risk Pool
Nobody's Fool
Straight Man
The Whore's Child (collection of short stories)
Bridge of Sighs
Awards
Overview edit
Bibliography
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(2009)
That Old Cape Magic
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(2007)
Bridge of Sighs
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(2002)
The Whore's Child and Other Stories
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(2001)
Empire Falls
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(1997)
Straight Man
Personal edit
- Legal name: Richard Russo
- Birthdate: July 15, 1949 (age 62)
- Birthplace: Johnstown, New York, United States
- Nationality: American
- Gender: Male
- Official Website: http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/authors/russo/
- Genres: Fiction
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"I've always had the feeling that part of me left. I mean, the Richard Russo who grew up and became novelist is one person. But I've always had the distinct feeling that there was a ghost version of myself still living back in that place that's still so real in my imagination and that I've been telling fibs about all this time."
-Richard Russo
Richard Russo grew up in a small upstate New York town. His experience in Gloversville as a child have shaped his writing allowing him to accurately depict small town America.
Praise for Richard Russo
“There is a big, wry heart beating at the center of Russo’s fiction” —The New Yorker
“Nobody does small-town life better than Richard Russo.” — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Russo is one of the best novelists around.” — New York Times Book Review
Author reads from Huck Finn
Bibliography
Empire Falls
Mohawk
The Risk Pool
Nobody's Fool
Straight Man
The Whore's Child (collection of short stories)
Bridge of Sighs
Awards
- 2002 Pulitzer Prize (Fiction) for Empire Falls
