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	Richards, David Adams
		Richards, David Adams, novelist, short-story writer, memoirist (b Newcastle, NB 17 October 1950).
		Author of novels, short stories, memoirs, essays, poetry and plays, David Adams Richards explores in his fictionalized Miramichi conflicts between families with long community histories, long-term consequences of errors in judgment, the complexity of making moral choices, and humanity's unfortunate willingness to remember faults sooner than virtues.
		David Adams Richards challenges readers to confront their own perceptions and prejudices.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0010904 (711 words)

	David Adams Richards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		David Adams Richards (born 1950) is a Canadian author.
		David Adams Richards has received numerous awards including a Gemini Award for scriptwriting for Small Gifts; the Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence in the Arts; the Canadian Authors Association Award for his novel Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace and the Governor General's Award for the 1988 novel Nights Below Station Street.
		Richards is one of only three writers to win both fiction and non-fiction categories of the Governor General's Award.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Adams_Richards (333 words)

	The Antigonish Review 128: Tony Tremblay reviews David Adams Richards
		David Adams Richards and the Paradox of Unpopularity
		David Adams Richards' story is paradigmatic, the reception of his art bearing witness to exactly that contempt.
		David Adams Richards endures a similar fate today, exacerbated by where he's from, who he is, and what he chooses to celebrate - which is to say, nothing that is currently important in the national consciousness.
	www.antigonishreview.com /bi-128/128-tremblay.html (2968 words)

	RandomHouse.ca \| Author Spotlight: David Adams Richards
		Born in 1950 in Newcastle, New Brunswick, David Adams Richards was the third of William and Margaret Richards’ six children.
		From David Adams Richards, one of Canada's finest writers, The Bay of Love and Sorrows is an unflinching story of ambition and betrayal.
		David Adams Richards explores man's relationship with nature: whether fishing salmon on the Miramichi, hunting moose or deer, losing your way in the woods, or sneaking away from a bear.
	www.randomhouse.ca /author/results.pperl?authorid=25454 (656 words)

	Anne McDermid & Associates-Literary Agency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		David Adams Richards, twice winner of the Governor General's Award and co-winner of the Giller Prize, is one of Canada's most compelling and original writers.
		Rich with all the passion, ambition and almost mythic vision that defines David Adams Richards' work, The Friends of Meager Fortune is a profound and important book about the hands and the heart; about true greatness and true weakness; about the relentlessness of fate and the evil that men and women do.
		From David Adams Richards, winner of the Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Award, comes a story of one woman’s resolute and determined struggle in overcoming small town prejudice and deceit.
	www.mcdermidagency.com /richards.htm (558 words)

	UNB Archives and Special Collections-David Adams Richards Fonds-Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		David Adams Richards was born on October 17, 1950 in Newcastle, New Brunswick, the third of six children.
		Richards' third novel, Lives of Short Duration, was published in 1981, and firmly established his reputation as a leading Canadian author.
		In 1986 Richards was named as one of the ten best Canadian writers under the age of 45 (45 Below) by the Canadian Book Information Centre and was awarded a silver medal by the Royal Society of the Arts for his overall contribution to literature in Eastern Canada.
	www.lib.unb.ca /archives/richards/intro.html (871 words)

	Eye - IFOA: The hard way - 10.19.00
		Richards is hardly the first writer who's been accused of cruelty toward his characters (Raymond Carver and Alice Munro spring to mind).
		Richards is also moved to address the slow encroach- ment of the information age even on rural New Brunswick, an incongruous flush of progress that threatens to bury the likes of the Pits and the Hendersons.
		Listen to Richards for a while, or to the people who populate his fiction, then compare that picture to the sloppy, willfully grotesque portraits of working people in popular culture, and Richards' worries about the dawning century become very easy to understand.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_10.19.00/arts/a-richards.html (1720 words)

	David Adams Richards: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		David Adams Richards (born 1950) is a Canadian Canada quick summary:
		Richards is one of only three writers to win both fiction and non-fiction categories of the Governor General's Award[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link].
		You can listen to an interview with David Adams Richards.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/da/david_adams_richards.htm (501 words)

	FFWD Weekly - September 18, 2003
		Richards agrees that what he finds comical in his own work or that of authors like Malcolm Lowry and William Faulkner may not leave everyone chuckling.
		But the longer she fools herself, says Richards, "the harder it is going to be to face what is actually true.
		In this year of CEO fraudsters and faked intelligence reports, Richards’ story of the power of illusions and the price to be paid when they fail makes his Miramichi fable especially timely.
	www.ffwdweekly.com /Issues/2003/0918/book1.htm (660 words)

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		David Adams Richards has won numerous awards for his fiction and nonfiction.
		David Adams Richards is one of the exceptional writers of our time.
		Richard's plots are complicated, his characters as complex as real life, but he has the talent to lead us through the jungles of the human heart and personality without compromising these complexities.
	www.arcadepub.com /onix?isbn=1559707127 (597 words)

	Compass Vol. 13 #4, Books: Williams Review
		Richards writes novels that are clear and compassionate depictions of the working class in the small towns of New Brunswick.
		Dabydeen, unlike Richards, is not a native-born Canadian, yet like the New Brunswicker, he blends an outsider's and an insider's perspective of Canada in his poetry.
		Richards advocates a wisdom that comes from experience and not from what is touted as sophistication.
	gvanv.com /compass/arch/v1304/williams.html (1504 words)

	Interview \| David Adams Richards
		Unshaven and comfortable in a cable knit sweater for a day filled with interviews, you understand very quickly that the Richards you are meeting is the only one there is: honest, friendly, forthright and brilliant.
		Richards quails at being called a regional writer, though he admits it happens less now than it did earlier in his career.
		David Adams Richards lives in Toronto with Peggy, his wife of 29 years, and their sons John Thomas and Anton.
	www.januarymagazine.com /profiles/darichards.html (3667 words)

	Quill & Quire
		Richards describes his former editor, Ellen Seligman, as âbrilliant,â but he wonât elaborate on the reasons for changing houses.
		Richards has been called a âpainfully sharp observerâ who tells his story with âheartbreaking courageâ and whose âcompassion for his poorest charactersâ misery is infectious.â Painful.
		Although Richardsâ novels have been compared to Faulknerâs Yoknapatawpha County saga (both he and Richards set their novels in the same basic locale each time out, and certain characters appear in several different books), the Canadian writer he resembles most in both tone and ethical intensity is Morley Callaghan.
	www.quillandquire.com /authors/profile.cfm?article_id=1818 (1255 words)

	Renowned Author David Adams Richards to read at UNB Saint John -- September 5, 2006 - News@UNB
		Renowned author David Adams Richards will read from The Friends of Meager Fortune on Monday, September 18 at 7 pm at the Ganong Hall Lecture Theatre as part of the Lorenzo Reading Series at the University of New Brunswick Saint John.
		The author of 12 novels, three works of non-fiction, and several screenplays, David Adams Richards won a Governor General’s Award for Nights Below Station Street (1988) and a second Governor General’s for Lines on the Water (1998).
		Whereas River of the Brokenhearted (2003) was a homage to a New Brunswick river, the new novel, Richards’ thirteenth, celebrates the province’s forests.
	www.unb.ca /news/view.cgi?id=1078 (551 words)

	Books
		That may seem like a strange conclusion to draw from a novel set among poor rural Canadians, in which a relentlessly kind couple is ostracized, beaten, abused, poisoned by chemical dumping, and accused of everything from theft to child molestation and murder.
		Those are two conclusions Richards, within the world of his novel, does not reach.
		And Richards feels the Victorian need to wrap every narrative line up neatly at the close, which feels rushed (suddenly Autumn's a famous author!) and over-tidy (sisters separated at birth).
	www.crisismagazine.com /february2002/book5.htm (889 words)

	CTV.ca \| David Adams Richards promoting first movie
		Based on his 1998 novel of the same name, and co-written by Richards himself, the movie is about a spoiled rich kid, Michael Skid, who triggers a chaotic bloodbath by slumming with criminals and shack-dwellers in a New Brunswick backwater in the early 1970s.
		To date, Richards' screenwriting has proved almost as prize-friendly as his fiction writing and reportage, and he has picked up two Geminis to add to his two Governor General's Awards and his 2000 Giller.
		Richards insists the film does in fact do justice to his book.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1043782001561_39191201?hub=Entertainment (646 words)

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		Richards is a painfully sharp observer, who possesses one of the most distinct and compelling voices in contemporary literature.
		Like them, Richards is a regional writer, but not in a limiting sense; circumscription of place concentrates and clarifies the universal issues of motive and moral responsibility.
		David Adams Richards' superb novel of a man whose pacifism provides him with a moral compass yet eventually leads him into danger won the Giller Prize for the best Canadian novel of 2000.
	www.arcadepub.com /onix?isbn=1559705868 (1081 words)

	Smoky Mountain News \| Reading Room (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		River of the Brokenhearted by David Adams Richards.
		He is a Canadian named David Adams Richards, and his latest novel, River of the Brokenhearted, shines a light on these attributes that burns with the intensity of a William Faulker or a Cormac MacCarthy.
		Later it is a woman, Rebecca, Joey’s protegé, who follows the yearnings of her dark and twisted heart to attempt a grand act of vengeance against the remaining Kings, Miles and his son.
	www.smokymountainnews.com /issues/03_05/03_23_05/book_minick.html (935 words)

	Eye - BOOKS: David Adams Richards -- Hope in the Desperate Hour - 05.09.96 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Easter weekend in the Miramichi Valley, where whites and natives share an uneasy, co-dependent relationship, sees the culmination of a lifetime of mistakes and ill-fated love end in catastrophe for the Shackle family and their friends.
		Richards is adept at portraying the small gestures by which we discover the lies and deceits of others, as well as the truths we hide from ourselves.
		Richards creates the kind of characters too rarely seen in Canadian fiction, the dispossessed.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_05.09.96/ARTS/bo0509a.htm (349 words)

	David Adams Richards- Vancouver International Writers Festival
		David Adams Richards won the 2000 Giller Prize for his novel, Mercy Among the Children.
		He has also won the Governor General's Award twice: in 1988 for Nights Below Station Street and in 1998 for his non-fiction book, Lines on the Water.
		His latest novel, River of the Brokenhearted, is set, like all his fiction, in New Brunswick's Miramichi Valley, a real place that Richards has made uniquely his own.
	www.writersfest.bc.ca /2003festival/author.php?author=59 (70 words)

	Amazon.ca: A Lad from Brantford: and Other Essays: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		David Adams Richards has plenty on his mind, and he knows how to hold our attention.
		As an essayist, Richards is funny, angry, charming, prickly, nostalgic, argumentative, creative, and quirky.
		One of his most effective techniques is to collect several stories and thoughts about a particular topic (children, bed and breakfasts, driving at night, travel) and look for the meaning that their juxtaposition generates.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0921411251 (681 words)

	Books at Book Clubs \| Blood Ties by David Adams Richards
		For David Adams Richards, blood ties is not merely a figure of speech, but an assertion of the reality of life in small-town Canada, where blood ties people in countless, almost unknowable ways to friends, community, and landscape.
		The lives of three generations of MacDurmots form a Miramichi Valley family portrait that is beguiling, insightful, witty, and tender.
		Employing dazzling angles of vision and fast-shifting perspectives, Richards captures the inner lives of his characters with sympathy and understanding.
	www.bookclubs.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780771098871 (177 words)

	1998 International Festival of Authors: David Adams Richards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The insightful, engaging storytelling of David Adams Richards captures the sardonic humour and desperation of small-town life.
		In his latest novel, The Bay of Love and Sorrows, Richards weaves a richly textured, suspenseful tale of ambition and betrayal, once again set in his native province of New Brunswick.
		Richards won the Governor General’s Award for the first work of his Miramichi trilogy, Nights Below Station Street, which was produced as a Gemini Award-winning television drama.
	www.readings.org /ifoa98/richards.html (115 words)

	Creative Book Publishing: 2004 David Adams Richards Award for a Short Novel
		Creative Book Publishing: 2004 David Adams Richards Award for a Short Novel
		2004 David Adams Richards Award for a Short Novel
		Michelle won this award for obliged to drink bad water, a short story from The shadow side of grace.
	www.creativebookpublishing.ca /awards/index.cfm?wid=37 (82 words)

	Random House \| Authors \| David Adams Richards
		David Adams Richards finds universal truths in the very particular setting of New Brunswick’s Miramichi Valley.
		David Adams Richards’ Governor General’s Award-winning novel is a powerful tale of resignation and struggle, fierce loyalties and compassion.
		This book is the first in Richards’ acclaimed Miramichi trilogy.
	www.randomhouse.com /author/results.pperl?authorid=25454 (336 words)

	BJP Catalogue pg45 -A Lad from Brantford
		“Richards is a major writer, a voice to be reckoned with”
		David Adams Richards is the author of The Coming of Winter, Blood Ties, Lives of Short Duration, Nights Below Station Street, For Those Who Hunt the Down, Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace, The Bay of love and Sorrows, Lines on the Water and Mercy Among the Children.
		The book’s title comes from one of the essays wherein Richards responds to comments made by “a lad from Brantford”, Ontario.
	www.brokenjaw.com /catalog/pg45.htm (291 words)

	Amazon.com: Lines On the Water : A Fly Fisherman's Life On the Miramichi: Books: David Adams Richards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Writing with the same mastery and insight that have won him praise for his fiction, Richards brings to life a community centered on fly-fishing, a sport that has become, for many, a way of life.
		Weaving together tales of the guides and poachers, the "sports" and the city slickers, Richards pays tribute to all who have shared the joy of fishing.
		From his first fishing trip at age 4 to his endless search for the next great fishing pool, Richards takes us beyond fly-fishing and offers thoughts and insight about nature, perseverance, reverence, friendship, history, memory, and the changes the modern world has brought.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1559706783?v=glance (444 words)

	El Oso, El Moreno, and El Abogado » Blog Archive » Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Mercy Among the Children is a stunning novel by David Adams Richards.
		Richards leaves you with such an intense feeling of despair that you could easily catch yourself thinking, ‘what a waste of a read if that’s how it turns out.’
		I wouldn’t say it was one of my favorites, but Richards’ characters are some of the most vivid I have read in a long time.
	el-oso.net /blog?p=61 (1103 words)

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