American · b. 1949
Richard Russo is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American novelist known for warm, humane, often comic portraits of declining small-town America, author of Empire Falls and Nobody's Fool.
Richard Russo writes with affection and humor about the struggling small towns of the American Northeast, peopling them with vivid, flawed, and deeply human characters.
His novel Empire Falls (2001) won the Pulitzer Prize, while Nobody’s Fool and its sequels gave the world the irascible, lovable Donald “Sully” Sullivan, memorably played by Paul Newman on screen. His work blends comedy, pathos, and a keen sense of place and class.
Russo is celebrated for his generous comic vision and his compassionate chronicling of working-class American life.
by Richard Russo
Miles Roby manages the Empire Grill in Empire Falls, Maine — a dying mill town owned entirely by the widow Francine Whiting. He has waited his whole life for things to resolve themselves. His marriage is failing, his teenage daughter is struggling, and the town is slowly emptying. Russo's Pulitzer Prize winner.
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