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, and 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. His latest novel, Under the Falls, will be published in August. He lives in Portland, ME.