"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 American.
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 FinnBibliographyEmpire 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
