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  Richard Ford
Richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1944, the only child of a traveling salesman for a starch company, and was raised in Mississippi and in Arkansas.
Ford attended law school very briefly before entering the University of California at Irvine, where he received his M.F.A. in writing in 1970.
Ford lives in New Orleans, Louisiana, where his wife, Kristina, is the head of the city planning commission.
www.randomhouse.com /vintage/read/independence/ford.html   (254 words)

  
 Richard Ford
Ford himself does not live in one place but in three different places, together with is wife who has a PhD in town planning and to whom all his books are dedicated.
Ford comes from the southern states, from Jackson, Mississippi, where he was born in 1944.
Ford, who was honoured with the 'Pulitzer-Prize' and the 'P.E.N./Faulkner Award' for his novel 'Independence Day' can quite rightly be regarded as "The Great American Novelist" in the tradition of Saul Bellow or John Updike.
www.literaturfestival.com /bios1_3_6_423.html   (529 words)

  
 Richard Ford
Richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1944 and raised in Jackson and Little Rock, Arkansas.
Ford wrote the screenplay for the film "Bright Angel," which was based on two stories from Rock Springs.
"Richard Ford's power lies in the deceiving simplicity of his language, in the complexity of the emotions he explores, and in the extraordinary tenderness with which most of the people in his stories go about the solitary business of loving, and seeking love.
www.reaaward.org /html/richard_ford.html   (499 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : Women With Men: Three Stories: Livres en anglais: Richard Ford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Richard Ford is among the most traditional of contemporary American writers and also among the most original.
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.
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.
www.amazon.fr /Women-Men-Stories-Richard-Ford/dp/product-description/0679454691   (1406 words)

  
 Conversations with Richard Ford
Pulitzer Prize--winning author Richard Ford is a leading figure among American writers of the post--World War II generation.
A recurring question that Ford addresses in these interviews is his view of the role of place in both his fiction and his life.
Ford also discusses the broader themes of his work, such as the struggle to overcome loneliness, the consoling potential of language, and the redeeming quality of human affection.
www.upress.state.ms.us /catalog/fall2001/conversations_with_richard_ford.html   (453 words)

  
 Seattle Arts & Lectures - Richard Ford
When Richard Ford was a child, his mother pointed Eudora Welty out to him: "I could tell from the tone of my mother's voice that being a writer was something estimable," Ford said.
The son of a salesman, Ford was raised in Jackson, Mississippi.
Ford was categorized as a Southern writer with the publication of his first novel, A Piece of My Heart (1976)—an elaborate, stylistically ambitious, and complex novel about the rural South on the cusp of modern life.
www.lectures.org /ford.html   (929 words)

  
 Ploughshares, the literary journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Richard Ford was in France this past spring when he got the call.
For Ford, the awards were a culmination to a career that has spanned nearly thirty years, made up of hard, disciplined, and sometimes frustrating work.
Ford, however, doesn’t think his dyslexia was a handicap, and believes it actually helped him as a writer: “Being a slow reader admitted me to books at a very basic level—word by word.
www.pshares.org /issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=4087   (2985 words)

  
 Richard Ford - School of Dentistry, University of Minnesota
Ford, R.T. "Treatment of a patient with equilibrium and restorative dentistry for a problem of facial pain." Journal of General Dentistry Vol.
Ford practiced general dentistry for 6 months in Fridley Minnesota and then joined the U. Army as a dentist in the spring of 1962.
Ford has pursued a special interest in occlusion, and caring for patients with craniomandibular pain and dysfunction during his tenure as a general dentist.
www.dentistry.umn.edu /faculty_bios/Ford_Richard.html   (879 words)

  
 Richard Henry Lee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Tall, thin and aristocratic in appearance, Richard Henry Lee was a born orator.
Among the signers were Richard Henry, Thomas, Francis Lightfoot, and William Lee and the four brothers of George Washington.
The call for an inter-colonial congress was made, and Richard Henry was chosen as one of the seven-man Virginia delegation to the first Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
www.stratfordhall.org /richardh.html?HISTORY   (604 words)

  
 Richard Ford Speaker Profile at The Lavin Agency
In his recent, groundbreaking study, Racial Culture, Ford stakes out a unique position, arguing on the one hand that attempts to legislate equality through the identification of cultural difference are counterproductive and harmful and stereotypical to individuals, while on the other recognizing that racial and cultural discrimination are real problems requiring sophisticated and progressive solutions.
Richard Ford is a self-described "race conscious, left-wing critic of multiculturalism." His research has led him to the conclusion that race and culture are distinct, and that we should resist the temptation to conflate the two when discussing racism and discrimination.
Confusing race with culture, he argues, does a disservice to both individuals and the community at large: individuals are often pushed into pre-scripted cultural roles based on their race, and the community loses out on the opportunity for people of different races, but similar cultural or political outlooks, to work together.
www.thelavinagency.com /college/richardford.html   (419 words)

  
 Richard Ford
February 16 is the birthday of novelist Richard Ford.
All of Ford's novels feature restless and alienated male protagonists who are haunted by painful experiences that render them incapable of emotional commitment.
Ford, who said, "If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure," moved to Rhode Island where he works without the distractions of life in his home town.
amsaw.org /amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-021604-ford.html   (613 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - Books: A Multitude of Sins, by Richard Ford, Hardcover, 1ST US
Ford's characters don't get away with their "sins," but punishment is usually befuddlement, men wondering what happened, women trying to imagine what will happen.
Ford's lawyers, writers and artists are intelligent folks who frequently don't know their partners or themselves because they displace couple trouble onto some other subject, such as a stray dog in "Puppy." Although articulate, they complain about lacking language.
Ford's stories are often a pleasure when found in our better magazines, but read one after the other, the stories in A Multitude of Sins have an assembly-line quality.
search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?isbn=0375412123   (1576 words)

  
 Department of Clinical Sciences - DoCS Faculty-Richard Ford
Ford is the author/editor of three books, including the Handbook of Veterinary Procedures and Emergency Treatment, now in its 7th Edition.
Ford is the Past President of the North American Veterinary Conference and continues his role as a member of the scientific program committee for that Congress.
Ford is a Brigadier General in the Air Force Reserve and is assigned to the Office of the Air Force Surgeon General.
www.cvm.ncsu.edu /docs/richard_ford.html   (105 words)

  
 Richard Ford
Ford spends the bulk of his time in Maine, New Orleans, and Montana, but I am able to catch up with him in Philadelphia because he is currently on tour for his new novel, the third installment of a series about his greatest and most famous protagonist, the New Jersian real estate agent Frank Bascombe.
I asked Ford whether writing about a man with cancer and spending years researching and imagining what that life would be like, had a bad effect on him.
Although as a child Ford was interested in the concept of being a writer (his mother pointed out Eudora Welty to him and told him she was "a writer," and from the way she said the word he instinctively knew it was something special) he bounced around with a number of potential aspirations when younger.
www.absolutewrite.com /novels/richard_ford.htm   (1392 words)

  
 Richard Ford Biography and List of Works - Richard Ford Books
Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944, Jackson, Mississippi) is the author of A Piece Of My Heart, The Ultimate Good Luck, The Sportswriter and its sequel Independence Day, Wildlife, and a volume of short stories, Rock Springs.
Richard Ford is the editor of the 1991 volume of this venerable series.
Editor Richard Ford has collected a sampling of sports writing from 1998 that includes David Halberstam on Michael Jordan, John McPhee on fishing, Adam Gopnick on soccer, and Melissa King on women's basketball.
www.biblio.com /authors/92/Richard_Ford_Biography.html   (926 words)

  
 New York State Writers Institute - Richard Ford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Richard Ford is regarded as one of the finest novelists and short story writers of his generation.
Ford's most recent work is A Multitude of Sins (2001), a collection of short stories that explore love and intimacy and the ways in which people often fail to meet the challenges of relationships.
Richard Ford was also a guest at the New York State Writers Institute on December 3, 2002.
www.albany.edu /writers-inst/ford_richard.html   (292 words)

  
 BookPage Interview February 2002: Richard Ford
Ford, whose 1995 novel Independence Day won both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award, uses his new collection to pinpoint pivotal moments of failure in people's lives.
It's an intriguing theme from Ford, who married Kristina Hensley, his college sweetheart, in 1967 and has stayed good and married to her.
Ford, 58, frequently tires of his home on New Orleans' Bourbon Street and lights out for his homes in Maine and Mississippi.
www.bookpage.com /0202bp/richard_ford.html   (1023 words)

  
 The Lyceum Agency - Speakers - Richard Ford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In person, Ford’s voice is similarly impressive; his Mississippi beginnings yield a generosity of spirit, a compelling, honed eccentricity and an absolute abhorrence of pretension.
While Ford’s tone never quite matched the blank, minimalism of many of his contemporaries, it took a decidedly different and seemingly out-of-step turn with this “transcendent…large-spirited” (Boston Globe) novel.
Ford’s achievement in Independence Day—and it is a considerable one—is to reclaim the strangeness of a country which he knows is at least as beguiling as it is wretched, and to rescue it from its worst own image.
www.lyceumagency.com /?id=242   (790 words)

  
 Facts about Richard Ford:
Ford and his wife, Kristina, live on the coast of Maine but spent 11 years in New Orleans, where she was executive director of the city planning commission.
Ford was born in Jackson, Miss., and attended the same high school as Eudora Welty.
Ford has a mild case of dyslexia, which he said helped him become a more careful reader.
www.oregonlive.com /O/artsandbooks/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/1161131153284800.xml&coll=7   (176 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : The Lay of the Land: Livres: Richard Ford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
We asked Richard Ford to tell us a little more about what it's like to create (and share so much time with) a character like Frank.
In the first of Ford's magisterial Bascombe novels (The Sportswriter, 1986), Frank staved off feelings of loss and regret with a dissociated "dreaminess." He graduated to a more conventional detachment during what he calls the "Existence Period" of the Pen/Faulkner and Pulitzer Prize–winning Independence Day (1995).
Ford summons a remarkable voice for his protagonist—ruminant, jaunty, merciless, generous and painfully observant—building a dense narrative from Frank's improvisations, epiphanies and revisions.
www.amazon.fr /Lay-Land-Richard-Ford/dp/0679454683   (753 words)

  
 Richard Ford - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Richard Ford - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Ford, Richard, born in 1944, American writer, who first gained international renown with his novel The Sportswriter (1986).
Nixon, Richard Milhous : resignation: Ford pardons Nixon (media)
encarta.msn.com /Richard_Ford.html   (132 words)

  
 Richard Ford
Richard Ford, well-known Mississippi writer, is the winner of both the 1996 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Pulitzer Prize in Literature for his novel Independence Day.
Born in Jackson, Mississippi, on February 16, 1944, Richard Ford is the son of Parker Carrol and Edna Ford.
Richard Ford is Fall 1996 Writer in Residence at Emerson College for Ploughshares literary magazine.
www.shs.starkville.k12.ms.us /mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/writers/Ford.html   (2042 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Richard Ford (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
His concerns are those of a moralist who displays a deeply felt sympathy toward his often struggling, sometimes down-at-the-heels characters; his prose style is straightforward, even spare.
Ford's literary reputation was established with The Sportswriter (1986), a widely acclaimed novel that is still his best known.
It is a first-person account of a weekend in the life of novelist-turned-sportswriter Frank Bascombe, a tough-minded yet thoughtful, alienated yet acutely observant character whose reflections on his own life reveal much about contemporary America.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/F/FordRich.html   (304 words)

  
 Powells.com Interviews - Richard Ford
Before Richard Ford published Independence Day, the first novel to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, he twice read its seven hundred pages aloud to his wife, correcting rhythmical miscues and shades of connotation.
Ford: The stories are - in their affect, in their concision, in their conception, in how they get at what they get at - different.
Ford: It was only important in this way: I knew that I had to affect a change in his life from the first time I knew him, and I had to find something he could be doing that was plausible and that wouldn't require him to go back to college or become somebody radically different.
www.powells.com /authors/ford.html   (3801 words)

  
 Richard Ford
Ford blev då 93 år och 121 dagar, en dag äldre än Reagan var när han dog för två år sedan.
Ford är den ende president som aldrig blev vald, han var vicepresidenten som blev president när Richard Nixon tvingades avgå 1974 efter Watergate-skandalen.
Gerald Ford fick hastigt och mindre lustigt ta över posten som USA:s president när Richard Nixon avgick på grund av Watergateskandalen 1974.
www.st.nu /harkiv/ri/richard_ford   (339 words)

  
 Perspectives on Richard Ford
This is the first book-length examination of the fiction written by Richard Ford, who gained critical acclaim for The Sportswriter, the story of suburbanite Frank Bascombe's struggle to survive loneliness and great loss.
Perspectives on Richard Ford is the first collection of essays to study the body of Ford's fiction.
The nine essays demonstrate that Ford, like few other writers of his time, powerfully depicts what it feels like to live in the secular late-twentieth-century world, a dangerous and uncertain place where human relationships are impoverished and where human existence is often characterized by emptiness, solipsism, and, above all, by a sense of alienation.
www.upress.state.ms.us /catalog/spring2000/richard_ford.html   (391 words)

  
 Philanthropist Richard Ford receives honorary degree from Manchester College
“Richard Ford has enriched the county, the state and the nation with his commitment to the humanities,” Switzer told the audience of community leaders from Wabash and North Manchester, and family and friends of the Fords in the College’s Wine Recital Hall.
The degree ceremony was preceded with a performance by acclaimed international pianist James Giles, a member of the faculty of Northwestern University and a friend of Richard Ford.
Ford’s service enriches the Wabash Valley Music Association and the Historic Landmark Foundation of Indiana, and it stretches across the ocean to the American Museum in Britain.
www.manchester.edu /OCA/PR/Files/News/RichardFordDegree.htm   (376 words)

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