MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2006

RICHARD FORD

Brown Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1001 Bissonnet

7:30 p.m. (doors open 6:45)

$5 general admission, free for students and senior citizens 65+; tickets available only at the door on the evening of the reading

Reading followed by booksale and signing conducted by Brazos Bookstore.

Join the Inprint Book Club on November 12 for a discussion on Ford's novel The Sportswriter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RICHARD FORD, hailed as the "Babe Ruth of novelists" by the Washington Post Book World, is the author of three collections of short fiction and six novels, including Independence Day, which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. His soon-to-be-released novel, The Lay of the Land, brings back his everyman character from The Sportswriter and Independence Day, Frank Bascombe. The Globe and Mail of Toronto writes that "Ford captures the intricacies of human beings better than just about any other writer alive. . . . He is a master of the small moments that take place in between and shape the larger movements of our lives."