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Richard Russo

Biography

Richard Russo

Richard Russo is the author of 10 novels, most recently SOMEBODY'S FOOL, CHANCES ARE…, EVERYBODY'S FOOL and THAT OLD CAPE MAGIC; two collections of stories; and the memoir ELSEWHERE. In 2002, he received the Pulitzer Prize for EMPIRE FALLS, which, like NOBODY'S FOOL, won multiple awards for its screen adaptation. In 2023, his novel STRAIGHT MAN was adapted into the television series "Lucky Hank." In 2017, he received France’s Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine. He lives in Port­land, ME.

Richard Russo

Books by Richard Russo

by Richard Russo - Fiction

From the beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning author of EMPIRE FALLS comes a novel about small-town America that follows Louis Charles Lynch (“Lucy”) and his wife of 40 years as they prepare to embark on a vacation to Italy.