
Richard Ford is the author of the Bascombe novels, which include THE SPORTSWRITER and its sequels, INDEPENDENCE DAY --- the first novel to win the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award --- and THE LAY OF THE LAND, as well as the short story collections ROCK SPRINGS and A MULTITUDE OF SINS, which contain many widely anthologized stories. He lives in Boothbay, Maine, with his wife, Kristina Ford.
Richard Ford