Background
Richard Babcock was born on February 26, 1947, in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He is the son of Richard Felt and Elizabeth (Burlingham) Babcock.
Hanover, NH 03755, United States
Richard received a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College in 1969.
Photo of Richard Babcock
Photo of Richard Babcock
Photo of Richard Babcock
(Sixteen-year-old Martha Calhoun runs away from her home i...)
Sixteen-year-old Martha Calhoun runs away from her home in Katydid, Illinois after a misunderstood incident with the nine-year-old boy she was babysitting. She discovers a great deal about herself while on the road with a boy she does not even like.
https://www.amazon.ca/Martha-Calhoun-Novel-Richard-Babcock-ebook/dp/B00ALBR3SA/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Martha+Calhoun&qid=1602847744&sr=8-1
1988
(Why would one man work to save buildings that have outliv...)
Why would one man work to save buildings that have outlived their practical function in our society? Old Barns in the New World answers that question as it chronicles the life and work of Richard Babcock, America's leading barn restorer and historian. A barn door is a gateway to our colonial past, and anyone who has ever marveled at 12-inch hand-hewn beams pegged together centuries ago will love this book. A part personal quest, part historical survey, and part armchair adventure through the lore of American barns, Old Barns in the New World is a must for barn lovers and history buffs alike! Richard Babcock and his sons have used original colonial tools and methods to move, renovate, and restore literally dozens of barns throughout the United States.
https://www.amazon.com/Old-Barns-New-World-Reconstructing/dp/0936399791/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=Richard+Babcock&qid=1602847798&sr=8-4
1996
(Every now and then, a small American town produces someon...)
Every now and then, a small American town produces someone with such out-of-place talent that he seems to have come from a different world. In the 1960s hardscrabble town of Laroque, Wisconsin, seventeen-year-old Ginger Piper, a high school sports hero and a disarmingly poised and articulate young man, is that sort of figure. Or at least G. Bowman Epps - a rich, lonely, middle-aged lawyer - believes he is. Bow is something of a town legend too: Ungainly and scarred, brilliant and stern, famous for great inherited wealth, he seems a vestige of a time gone by in a town where the legacy of past greatness - embodied in the ornate, decaying, and defunct opera house - casts a literal shadow. But when Bow discovers Ginger Piper, he is energized and inspired. Where others have seen merely a charming basketball star, Bow spies the seeds of something greater and the drive, intelligence, and passion to carry on Bow’s legacy as a groundbreaking criminal attorney. When Bow offers the boy a summer apprenticeship in his orderly practice, it is an investment in a certain future and the initiation of an oddly matched friendship. But when Ginger is accused of a startling crime that changes the town's perception of him, Bow is not only surprised, he’s also implicated, and forced to choose between his fierce sense of logic and his admiration for the boy.
https://www.amazon.ca/Bows-Boy-Novel-Richard-Babcock-ebook/dp/B003L77VBA/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Bow%27s+Boy+by+Richard+Babcock&qid=1602847683&s=audible&sr=1-1
2002
(In this short fiction with echoes of both O. Henry and Hi...)
In this short fiction with echoes of both O. Henry and Hitchcock, a husband is driven to extremes by the anecdotal story that his wife repeats endlessly. Richard Babcock is the author of two novels and a long-time magazine editor in New York and Chicago.
https://www.amazon.ca/My-Wifes-Story-Kindle-Single-ebook/dp/B00679LQIS/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=My+Wife%27s+Story&qid=1602847567&s=books&sr=1-2
2011
(John Lincoln is a book editor miserably ensconced at Pist...)
John Lincoln is a book editor miserably ensconced at Pistakee, a dinky Chicago publisher. His overwhelming ambition is to flee the bland, over-polite Midwest and land in New York - where, he imagines, he’ll work with real writers; brandish success at his skeptical, patrician East Coast parents; and experience again the glories of a city where, with "every block, every step," he will find something interesting and exciting. What he needs is a hot bestseller, and he finds his vehicle in Amy O’Malley, a recent University of Chicago grad who’s worked on the school’s famous sex survey. With Lincoln’s prodding and guidance, Amy writes a sex-filled novel that draws on her experience. Her book indeed opens doors for Lincoln - but not in the way he imagined. Meanwhile, a professor of happiness studies at a local college blackmails him into publishing his fantastically mundane poetry. Reminiscent of Richard Russo’s Straight Man, Are You Happy Now? is a comic novel about the hard work of understanding what it is you want.
https://www.amazon.ca/Are-You-Happy-Richard-Babcock/dp/1612186718
2012
(Kindle Singles' best-selling author Richard Babcock (My W...)
Kindle Singles' best-selling author Richard Babcock (My Wife's Story) returns to the scene of simmering domestic conflict with this witty and harrowing tale of a husband who battles a marauding rat that seems determined to avenge the man's secret infidelity. Babcock is a novelist and former magazine editor.
https://www.amazon.ca/Ah-Rat/dp/B07197KCMT/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Ah+Rat&qid=1602847609&s=books&sr=1-1
2012
Richard Babcock was born on February 26, 1947, in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He is the son of Richard Felt and Elizabeth (Burlingham) Babcock.
Richard received a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College in 1969. He also got a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan in 1974.
Richard Babcock is an attorney who turned to journalism, first as a reporter, then as an editor of the National Law Journal and two city-specific publications, New York and Chicago - sister magazines owned by Primedia, Inc. Babcock led the redesign and focus of Chicago, concentrating on the people, events, and places of the Windy City.
In addition, Babcock is the author of three novels; his first is "Martha Calhoun" (1998). The story set, in the 1950s in Katydid, Illinois, is narrated by Martha Calhoun, a sixteen-year-old who, in a momentary lapse of judgment, allows the nine-year-old boy she is babysitting to peek inside her blouse. Martha is basically a stable, solid girl, but her waitress-mother, Bunny, is the town embarrassment, a beautiful, single blonde with a succession of suitors, and whose another child, a son, is behind bars.
His "Bow's Boy" (2002) is also about a teen and the two men who become part of his life. The story is set in Laroque, Wisconsin, during the Vietnam War era.
"Are You Happy Now?" is Babcock's third novel. This book is about John Lincoln, an editor in a small publishing company based in Chicago (which the author did a great job of describing). He is an East Coast transplant who dreams of leaving the Midwest and his dreary job to work for a big publisher in New York. Lincoln is dour, cynical, snobby, and wildly insecure. He plots to have a coworker produce a best seller to leverage a job in New York. Meanwhile, he is blackmailed by a professor of happiness and then things really start to fall apart. Lincoln isn't a bad man (though he behaves very badly in a moment of panic) and as he strives to achieve success and deals with a variety of misfortune, he slowly matures and begins to find happiness.
He is also the author of the best-selling Kindle Singles stories "My Wife's Story" and "Ah, Rat."
(Kindle Singles' best-selling author Richard Babcock (My W...)
2012(Why would one man work to save buildings that have outliv...)
1996(Sixteen-year-old Martha Calhoun runs away from her home i...)
1988(Every now and then, a small American town produces someon...)
2002(John Lincoln is a book editor miserably ensconced at Pist...)
2012(In this short fiction with echoes of both O. Henry and Hi...)
2011Richard married Gioia Diliberto on September 13, 1980. They have one son, Joseph.