His short story "Horseman" was published in The Best American Short Stories 2007 edited by Stephen King and Heidi Pitlor.īesides his work as a book author, Russo along with director Robert Benton co-wrote the 1998 film Twilight, starring Paul Newman. He has written seven other novels, a collection of short stories, and a memoir ( Elsewhere). His 2001 novel Empire Falls received the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Much of his work is semi-autobiographical, drawing on his life from his upbringing in upstate New York to his time teaching literature at Colby College, where he retired from in 1996 to pursue writing full-time.
Russo was teaching in the English department at Southern Illinois University Carbondale when his first novel, Mohawk, was published, in 1986. The subject of his doctoral dissertation was the works of the early American writer, historian and editor Charles Brockden Brown. He earned a bachelor's degree, a Master of Fine Arts degree, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Arizona, which he attended from 1967 through 1979. Russo was born in Johnstown, New York, and raised in nearby Gloversville. In 2002, he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his novel Empire Falls. Richard Russo (July 15, 1949) is an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and teacher. Empire Falls, Nobody's Fool, Straight Man
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