American · b. 1944
Richard Ford is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American novelist best known for the Frank Bascombe novels, including Independence Day, chronicling middle-class American life.
Richard Ford is a leading figure of contemporary American realism, associated with the “Dirty Realism” of his early career and celebrated for his perceptive, melancholy explorations of ordinary American lives.
His Frank Bascombe novels — The Sportswriter, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land, and Let Me Be Frank with You — follow a suburban New Jersey everyman across the decades; Independence Day won both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. He has also written acclaimed short stories and the novel Canada.
Ford is admired for his graceful prose and his quietly profound attention to the textures of middle-class American experience.
by Richard Ford
Frank Bascombe, divorced sports journalist turned New Jersey real estate agent, spends the 4th of July weekend driving through New England with his troubled teenage son Paul. The novel is an account of middle-aged American life — its compromises, its small satisfactions, its persistent loneliness — rendered in Ford's long, meditative prose.
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