Richard Russo (born July 15
1949 in Johnstown, New York) is
a Pulitzer Prize-winning American
novelist.
Born in
Johnstown and raised in nearby Gloversville
, 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.
He was
teaching in the English department at Southern
Illinois University Carbondale
when his first novel, Mohawk was
published. Much of his work has been semi-autobiographical,
from his upbringing in upstate New York to his time teaching
Literature at Colby College.
He now lives and writes in Camden, Maine
.
His novel
Empire Falls,
published in 2001, won the 2002
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He
has written five other novels:
Mohawk,
The Risk Pool,
Nobody's Fool,
Straight Man, and
Bridge of Sighs, as well as a
short story collection,
The Whore's
Child. Russo co-wrote the 1998 film
Twilight with director
Robert Benton, who also adapted and directed
Russo's
Nobody's Fool into a 1994 film of the
same name, starring
Paul Newman. Russo wrote the teleplay for the
HBO adaptation of
Empire Falls, the screenplay
for the 2005 film
Ice Harvest
and the screenplay for the 2005 Niall Johnson film
Keeping Mum, which starred
Rowan Atkinson. Russo's novel,
Bridge of Sighs, was released
on 25 September 2007 and Random House released his most recent
novel,
That Old Cape
Magic, on 4 August 2009.
Russo is
now retired from the faculty of Colby College
.
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