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I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But I have an urge as a writer to meld the Southern experience into the larger American one.


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Author Bio


  • NameRichard Ford
  • DescriptionAmerican novelist and short story writer
  • BornFebruary 16, 1944
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • AwardsPulitzer Prize For Fiction; ; PEN/Faulkner Award For Fiction; Guggenheim Fellowship