Richard Lange was born in Oakland, CA, in 1961 and spent his childhood in various small towns in California's Central Valley. He attended film school at the University of Southern California. After college, Lange traveled in Europe and taught English in Barcelona. He did a short stint in New York City, then returned to L.A., where he began working a series of jobs in magazine and book publishing. He was a copy editor for Larry Flynt Publications; managing editor of RIP, a heavy-metal music magazine; a text-book production editor; and managing editor of Radio & Records, a radio-industry trade magazine.
Lange published his first short story in 1994, and his story "Bank of America" was selected for inclusion in Best American Mystery Stories of 2004. His collection Dead Boys was published by Little, Brown in 2007. It was published in Italy by Einaudi and in France by Albin Michel. His novel This Wicked World will be published by Little, Brown in June 2009.
Lange was awarded the 2008 Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the 2008 Saroyan International Prize for Writing.
taken from www.richlange.com
