RICHARD RUSSO, “the architect of stories you
can’t put down” (The New
York Times) is regarded as the best writer about small-town
America since Sinclair Lewis. He is the author of the novels Mohawk, The Risk Pool, Nobody’s Fool (which
was made into a feature film with Paul Newman), the academic
satire Straight Man, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning
Empire Falls, which
Janet Maslin in the New
York Times called “cause for celebration.”
Russo’s work has received both popular and
critical acclaim. Ron
Charles in the Christian Science Monitor wrote: “The history
of American literature may show that Richard Russo wrote the
last great novel of the twentieth century.
Empire Falls . . . . captures the interplay
of past and present, comedy and tragedy, nation and individual
in the tradition of America’s greatest books.”
His most recent book, the short story collection The Whore’s Child, demonstrates yet again that “there is a big wry
heart beating at the center of Russo’s fiction” (The New Yorker). He is currently
at work on a new novel and the screenplay of Empire Falls.
