Background
Ford, Richard was born on February 16, 1944 in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. Son of Parker Carrol and Edna (Akin) Ford.
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"A deeply felt and largely compelling portrait of an age that indelibly marked everyone who took part in it. Indispensable for understanding the culture of the '60s and the music that was at its heart." - starred review, Kirkus Reviews In 1966, at the ripe age of 22, Richard Goldstein approached The Village Voice with a novel idea. "I want to be a rock critic," he said. "What's that?" the editor replied. It was a logical question, since rock criticism didn't yet exist. In the weekly column he would produce for theVoice, Goldstein became the first person to write regularly in a major publication about the music that changed our lives. He believed deeply in the power of rock, and, long before it was acceptable, he championed the idea that this music was a serious art form. From his unique position in journalism, he saw the full arc of events that shaped culture and politics in the 1960s--and participated in them, too. He toured with Janis Joplin, spent a day at the Grateful Dead house in San Francisco, and dropped acid with Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys. He was present for Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, the student uprising at Columbia, and the riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention. He was challenged to a boxing match by Norman Mailer, and took Susan Sontag to her first disco. Goldstein developed close relationships with several rock legends--Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, to name two--and their early deaths came as a wrenching shock, fueling his disillusionment as he watched the music he loved rapidly evolve from a communal rite to a vast industry--and the sense of hope for radical social upheaval fade away. Another Little Piece of My Heart is the intimate memoir of the writer as a young man with profound ambition. It is also a sweeping personal account of a decade that no one else could provide--a deeply moving, unparalleled document of rock and revolution in America.
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In this novel of menace and eroticism, Richard Ford updates the tradition of Conrad for the age of cocaine smuggling. The setting is Oaxaca, Mexico, where Harry Quinn has come to free his girlfriend's brother, Sonny, from Jail and, ideally, to get him away form the suavely sadistic drug dealer who suspects Sonny of having cheated him. "His prose has a taut, cinematic quality that bathes his story with the same hot, mercilessly white light that scorches Mexico."--New York Times Book Review
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Blurring the line between art and life, Andrea Zittel's fascinating experiments in functional living showcase her preoccupation with self-sufficiency and adaptability. An American artist, Andrea Zittel is best known as a builder of "living systems." From furniture to trailers to a man-made island, Zittel's structures are created as investigations into what humans need to survive. This exhibition catalog features numerous images from Zittel's project in the desert near Joshua Tree, California, known as "A-Z West." For nearly a decade she has been creating minimal self-sufficient dwelling spaces in which everyday actions such as sleeping, eating, cooking, bathing and socializing are transformed into acts of art. This volume documents the results of these experiments years after their inception. Also featured are images of Zittel's other projects, including her Uniform series, High Desert Test Sites, and the Wagon Station Project. The result is an up-to-date retrospective on this exciting artist.
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The beauty of John Willis Menard¹s poetry in Lays in Summer Lands stands out today just as it did when first published in 1879. Here, the weight of human experience and observation is transformed into lyrical delight and meaningful insights that continue to resonate generations after their creation. But, that is not all. Among the surprises that greet the reader of these poems is that their author was an African American and a Floridian who chose to offer his intimate thoughts, dreams, aspirations, and frustrations to a nation then entering the twilight years of its experience with social and political Reconstruction. The first African American elected to the United States Congress, Willis Menard turned his disappointment at rejection by his congressional peers into a fruitful career as a political advocate, public official, journalist, editor, and author. In the process, he influenced Florida¹s evolution while reaching a national and international audience. In these pages for the first time since their original publication, the poems of Lays in Summer Lands are reprinted in their entirety. Two noted historians of Florida and African American experience, Larry Eugene Rivers and Canter Brown Jr., have related Menard¹s story and examined the importance of poetry to his world, while award-winning literature professor Richard Mathews has contributed an intriguing essay on the profound depth and implications of the poet¹s work. Delight in these beautiful poems as you cast yourself back well over a century. At the same time, thrill to the enjoyment and insight they bring today.
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(Richard Ford's Independence Day--his sequel to The Sports...)
Richard Ford's Independence Day--his sequel to The Sportswriter, and an international bestseller--is the only novel ever to have received both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Now, with Women With Men, he reaffirms his mastery of shorter fiction with his first collection since the widely acclaimed Rock Springs, published a decade ago. The landscape of Women with Men ranges from the northern plains of Montana to the streets of Paris and the suburbs of Chicago, where Mr. Ford's various characters experience the consolations and complications that prevail in matters of passion, romance and love. A seventeen-year-old boy starting adulthood in the shadow of his parents' estrangement, a survivor of three marriages now struggling with cancer, an ostensibly devoted salesman in early middle age, an aspiring writer, a woman scandalously betrayed by her husband--they each of them contend with the vast distances that exist between those who are closest together. Whether alone, long married or newly met, they confront the obscure difference between privacy and intimacy, the fine distinction of pleasing another as opposed to oneself, and a need for reliance that is tempered by fearful vulnerability. In three long stories, Richard Ford captures men and women at this complex and essential moment of truth--in the course of everyday life, or during a bleak Thanksgiving journey, seismic arguments, Christmas abroad, the sudden disappearance of a child, even a barroom shooting. And with peerless emotional nuance and authority he once again demonstrates, as Elizabeth Hardwick has written, "a talent as strong and varied as American fiction has to offer."
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( In these ten exquisite stories, first published by Atla...)
In these ten exquisite stories, first published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1987 and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback, Richard Ford mines literary gold from the wind-scrubbed landscape of the American West—and from the guarded hopes and gnawing loneliness of the people who live there: a refugee from justice driving across Wyoming with his daughter and an unhappy girlfriend in a stolen, cranberry-colored Mercedes; a boy watching his family dissolve in a night of tragicomic violence; and two men and a woman swapping hard-luck stories in a frontier bar as they try to sweeten their luck. Rock Springs is a masterpiece of taut narration, cleanly chiseled prose, and empathy so generous that it feels like a kind of grace.
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Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions. “One of the country’s best writers. . . . No one looks harder at contemporary American life, sees more, or expresses it with such hushed, deliberate care.” —San Francisco Chronicle An accomplished practitioner of the short story and the "Babe Ruth of novelists," (Washington Post Book World) Richard Ford is the first writer to receive both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for a single book, his 1995 novel Independence Day. Vintage Ford includes an excerpt from that novel, along with the stories “Communist,” and “Rock Springs” from his collection Rock Springs; “Reunion,” and “Calling,” from A Multitude of Sins, which won him the 2001 PEN/Malamud Award; “The Womanizer,” from Women with Men. Also included, for the first time in book form, the memoir, “My Mother, in Memory.”
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Ford's mesmerizing first novel is the story of two godless pilgrims. Robard Hewes has driven across the country in the service of a destructive passion. Sam Newell is seeking the missing piece of himself. When these men converge, on an uncharted island in the Mississippi, each discovers the thing he's looking for--amid a conflagration of violence that's as shocking as it is inevitable. "This is one of those books that hit you hard...a story filled with breathing characters and genius-crafted dialogue between moments of consummate description.... I can't be unbiased. I'm mad for this book."--Elizabeth Ashton, Houston Chronicle
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( Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Ford talks candid...)
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Ford talks candidly about his celebrated trilogy of novels and his approach to writing the character of Frank Bascombe over 20-plus years, overthrowing some of his readers' assumptions in the course of the conversation. Symphony Space Artistic Director Isaiah Sheffer interviews Mr. Ford, whose "pitch-perfect voice takes us as close as we can get to experiencing another person's inner life" (Newsweek). Actor David Strathairn performs the opening chapter of The Lay of the Land at the beginning of the program. This special event was recorded live as part of the Thalia Book Club series at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City.
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Diez narraciones ambientadas en Montana, un lugar semisalvaje, un paisaje frÁo e inhÁspito, el desconocido corazÁn de una AmÁrica perifÁrica. En este contexto solitario se mueven los personajes, vidas a la deriva, gente fracasada bordeando el abismo, las situaciones lÁmite. Unos personajes que parecen llegar estoicamente al
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This is a concise introduction to practical forest wildlife habitat management for private landowners, who own most of the forested habitat in New England, the eastern United States, and adjacent Canada. In non-technical terms, experts from the U.S. Forest Service provide useful information about plans that can improve forests, enhance production of forest products, increase the diversity of wildlife, and increase enjoyment of forest lands through sound forest management. The book discusses the history of land use and natural changes in forest environments, why species come and go, and how the scale and presence of special features can create a diversity of wildlife habitats. The authors explain management strategies that contribute to wildlife diversity, how to set goals and work with professional foresters to meet your goals, and project how managed lands will look in the future. They show how to determine what kinds of habitat will be used by various wildlife species, how to consider land capability and the mixture of habitat features necessary to attract desired species groups, and how to get started changing existing vegetative conditions through thoughtful management. Exceptional full-color illustrations, charts, and tables enhance the clear presentation of the text, geared specifically for landowners interested in getting started on improving habitat conditions on their land.
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True Stories: Mysteries of Crime and Punishment Every story in this book is true - except one. Some tell of crimes that have gone unpunished by the law. Some are crimes against laws that are unwritten. And some are crimes that exist only in the mind. This collection of short stories covers a multitude of sins. Getting away with murder is easy if you know how - even easier if you’re a high-flying City trader like Terry Hills and have the help of someone who has been Yakuza trained. Most of us have wanted Peace and quiet at some time in our lives. Simon and Petra found the perfect spot in the country - but there was a reason it was so quiet. Neville’s job was keeping the books for dodgy loan-shark Harold Hole. It was a humdrum existence until a mad idea took hold of Neville and wouldn’t let him go. It was the ink. The Red ink and green ink. When you’ve nothing else to live for, all you want is A perfect day to die. Finding one isn’t always so easy. Especially when someone else has got the same idea. Everyone has a big secret. Little Freddy Martin’s was bigger than most. He could make money appear out of thin air. It’s always nice to have A reminder of home. Unless you’re a crook who is planning the biggest con of his life - and home is the last thing on your mind. It’s the hardest question for every woman. What do you buy For the man who has everything? Especially one who is too wrapped up in his business even to notice. Barrister Isobel Lang found an answer that made a new man out of her husband, Alan. Nothing ever happens in Nogales - it’s just a sleepy Mexican border town. As long as you keep your wits about you, that is. When Eric Lowe is made redundant from Sharman Brothers after 20 years loyal service, the last thing he wants is to Spend more time with the family. Eric cooks up a plan to avoid admitting the awful truth to his wife - but it backfires in ways he could never have imagined. Like all representatives in India of Her Britannic Majesty, Queen Victoria, Henry St. John Fitzroy Outram always kept A stiff upper lip, even under the most trying circumstances. But would he be able to manage the banquet given in his honour by His Highness, the Maharaja of Kathiawar? Life as a woman’s journalist held plenty of surprises for Jay. When she found the ancient stenograph machine with its dusty old records of long ago court cases she found she was poking her nose into a case of Breach of promise - with consequences no-one could have predicted. Wherever Maddy Beale worked, she always stole something as a point of honour - Something worth stealing. When she got a position with the Earl and Countess of Marske, she stole something bigger than she had ever imagined possible. One of the more delicate tasks of the Dean of Westminster Abbey is to provide a fit and proper Place to rest for the great and the good. But some people, however famous, are simply beyond the pale. Derek and Maureene had their heart set on running their own pub - Maureene wanted nothing more than to stand proudly behind the bar serving customers. Eventually, they found a perfect jewel of a country pub - The Red Cow. There was just one problem . . . Some men manage to get it all - the good things in life just fall into their lap. It was like that with Chief Inspector Ray Hedges. A beautiful young wife and a fortune in property meant he could leave the Metropolitan Police and live a life of luxury. Of course, there was still that one Loose End. Some lies are so big they can put you behind bars if you’re caught out. Maria Childs had told the lie out of harsh necessity and now it was coming back to haunt her - and it was all because of the Recipe for marmalade. Click the Look Inside tag above to read more.
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( Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Ford talks candid...)
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Ford talks candidly about his celebrated trilogy of novels and his approach to writing the character of Frank Bascombe over 20-plus years, overthrowing some of his readers' assumptions in the course of the conversation. Symphony Space Artistic Director Isaiah Sheffer interviews Mr. Ford, whose "pitch-perfect voice takes us as close as we can get to experiencing another person's inner life" (Newsweek). Actor David Strathairn performs the opening chapter of The Lay of the Land at the beginning of the program. This special event was recorded live as part of the Thalia Book Club series at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City.
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( Starting out as the first rock critic for the Village V...)
Starting out as the first rock critic for the Village Voice in 1966, just twenty-three years old, Richard Goldstein had the perfect entrée to the exploding music scene of the era. And he was soon at its center. He toured with Janis Joplin, spent a day at the Grateful Dead house in San Francisco, got stoned with the Beach Boys, and watched the Doors record. In his vivid memoir, we see some of rock's greatest icons like never before. But Goldstein also carries us far beyond the music, charting the arc of an entire turbulent decade. As the Summer of Love hits the wall of the Vietnam War, Goldstein gradually relinquishes his critical distance, swept away in the violent politics of the day. Befriending radicals such as Abbie Hoffman and the Black Panthers, he witnesses the student uprising at Columbia University and the riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. His battle becomes, as for so many others, to fend off disillusionment and protect the idealism that had flowered so dramatically only years before. Another Little Piece of My Heart is an unforgettable portrait of an ambitious and openhearted young man in the right place at the right time, able to feel the full register of the sixties. Filled with the memories of unparalleled experience, this is a deeply moving, insightful document of rock and revolution in America.
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( New England Wildlife presents the natural histories and...)
New England Wildlife presents the natural histories and distributions of 338 inland wildlife species in New England. It also details the habitat relationships of all New England terrestrial and aquatic species, presented in sections on amphibians and reptiles, birds, and mammals. Each species account includes an illustration and range map, along with information on distribution in the region, status, habitat, special habitat requirements, details of breeding biology, home range and movements, and food habits, each fully documented from the pertinent literature. The introduction includes a brief land-use history of the region, descriptions of forest types and nonforest habitats, and wildlife responses to landscape change. A necessity for all land managers and naturalists as well as birders, walkers, nature lovers, residents, and visitors to New England, the book includes the most recent information on natural history and distribution, and matrices relating all species to standard classifications of forest cover - types and nonforest habitats.
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( New England Wildlife presents the natural histories and...)
New England Wildlife presents the natural histories and distributions of 338 inland wildlife species in New England. It also details the habitat relationships of all New England terrestrial and aquatic species, presented in sections on amphibians and reptiles, birds, and mammals. Each species account includes an illustration and range map, along with information on distribution in the region, status, habitat, special habitat requirements, details of breeding biology, home range and movements, and food habits, each fully documented from the pertinent literature. The introduction includes a brief land-use history of the region, descriptions of forest types and nonforest habitats, and wildlife responses to landscape change. A necessity for all land managers and naturalists as well as birders, walkers, nature lovers, residents, and visitors to New England, the book includes the most recent information on natural history and distribution, and matrices relating all species to standard classifications of forest cover - types and nonforest habitats.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Ford talks candidly about his celebrated trilogy of novels and his approach to writing the character of Frank Bascombe over 20-plus years, overthrowing some of his readers' assumptions in the course of the conversation. Symphony Space Artistic Director Isaiah Sheffer interviews Mr. Ford, whose "pitch-perfect voice takes us as close as we can get to experiencing another person's inner life" (Newsweek). Actor David Strathairn performs the opening chapter of The Lay of the Land at the beginning of the program. This special event was recorded live as part of the Thalia Book Club series at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City.
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Ford, Richard was born on February 16, 1944 in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. Son of Parker Carrol and Edna (Akin) Ford.
Bachelor in English, Michigan State University, 1966;Master of Fine Arts, University of California, 1970.
( In these ten exquisite stories, first published by Atla...)
( Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Ford talks candid...)
( Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Ford talks candid...)
( Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Ford talks candid...)
(This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to ma...)
( This is a concise introduction to practical forest wild...)
(Richard Ford's Independence Day--his sequel to The Sports...)
( Starting out as the first rock critic for the Village V...)
(Blurring the line between art and life, Andrea Zittel's f...)
(Diez narraciones ambientadas en Montana, un lugar semisal...)
(The first and only field guide to offer comprehensive cov...)
(Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the...)
(The beauty of John Willis Menard¹s poetry in Lays in Summ...)
(In this novel of menace and eroticism, Richard Ford updat...)
( New England Wildlife presents the natural histories and...)
( New England Wildlife presents the natural histories and...)
( New England Wildlife presents the natural histories and...)
( "A deeply felt and largely compelling portrait of an ag...)
( True Stories: Mysteries of Crime and Punishment Every s...)
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Author: (novels) A Piece of My Heart, 1976, The Ultimate Good Luck, 1981, The Sportswriter, 1986 (Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association/Faulkner Citation for Fiction 1986), Wildlife, 1990, Independence Day, 1995, The Lay of the Land, 2006. Author: (short stories) Women with Men: Three Stories, 1997, Rock Springs, 1987, A Multitude of Sins, 2002, Vintage Ford, 2004. Author: (play) American Tropical, 1983, (screenplay) Bright Angel, 1991.
Editor: (with Shannon Ravenel) The Best American Short Stories, 1990, The Granta Book of the American Short Story, (with Michael Kreyling), Eudora Welty: Complete Novels, 1998, Eudora Welty: Stories, Essays, and Memoir (Eudora Welty), 1998, The Granta Book of the American Long Story, 1999. Contributor articles to popular publications.
Member University Michigan Society Fellows, American Academy Arts & Letters.
Married Kristina Hensley, 1968.