Richard Ford

Richard Ford is an American novelist and short story writer, best known for his series of novels following Frank Bascombe, which begins with The Sportswriter and includes Independence Day. His first short story collection, Rock Springs, came out in 1987. Independence Day won him the 1996 Pulitzer Prize, and his novel Wildlife was adapted into a 2018 film of the same name. In 2023 Ford published Be Mine, the fifth of his works of fiction about Bascombe.