Richard Ford was born February 16, 1944, in Jackson, Mississippi. In1996 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature for Independence Day. During his early writing career he wrote for a number of well-known and a few not so well known magazines, including Esquire and The Paris Review. He attended Michigan State U. and the U. of California (Irvine). In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, he has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the PEN/Faulkner Award. He now lives in New Orleans.
He was born across the street from Eudora Welty's home, attended the same elementary school she attended, and is the literary executor of her estate.

Novels

The Ultimate Good Luck. Boston: Houghton-Miflin, 1981.
The Sportswriter. New York: Vintage, 1986.
A Piece of My Heart. London: Collins Harvill, 1987.
Wildlife. Boston: Little, Brown, Co, 1990.
Independence Day. London: Harvill Press, 1995.

Short Story Collections

Rock Springs. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987. *
Women with Men: Three Stories. New York: Knopf, 1997.
A Multitude of Sins: Stories. New York: Knopf, 2002.

Dramatic Writings:

American Tropical. (Play) Produced at Louisvilleıs Actors Theater, Louisville, Kentucky, 1983.
Bright Angel. (Screenplay; based on Fordıs short stories ³Children² and ³Great Falls.²) Dir. Michael Fields. Hemdale, 1991.

Collaborative Portfolio:

Privacy (with seven etchings by artist Jane Kent)