Richard Ford

Richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1944. He is the author of three collections of short stories, Rock Springs, Women Without Men and A Multitude of Sins, and six novels, A Piece of My Heart, The Ultimate Good Luck, Wildlife, The Sportswriter, Independence Day (which won the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner award in 1996) and The Lay of the Land. He is the editor of The Granta Book of the American Short Story and The Granta Book of the American Long Story.

Publications

American Fiction

The Granta Book Of The American Short Story

Richard Ford

£12.99

American Fiction

The Granta Book Of The American Short Story: Volume Two

Richard Ford

£12.99

American Fiction

The Granta Book Of The American Long Story

Richard Ford

£9.99

Richard Ford on Granta.com

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Between Them

Richard Ford

‘It was my child’s outlook to think most things were right. And yet if life’s eternal drama is of events seeking a more perfect state, their life and mine was not that.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 62

Where Does Writing Come From?

Richard Ford

‘Occasionally if pushed or annoyed I'll come right out and say it: I make these little buggers up, that's what. So sue me’.

In Conversation | Issue 99

Richard Ford | Interview

Tim Adams & Richard Ford

‘It may be that writing fiction, imagining agencies, is my most trusted way into the unseen.’

Fiction | Issue 72

Overreachers

Richard Ford

‘Madeleine Granville was standing at the hotel window of the Queen Elizabeth II, trying to decide which tiny car far below on Mansfield Street was her yellow Saab’.

Fiction | Issue 50

The Shore

Richard Ford

'Our relationship, in fact, hasn't seemed to need more attention to theme or direction but has proceeded or at least persisted on autopilot, like a small plane flying out over a peaceful ocean with no one exactly in command.'

Fiction | Issue 40

The Womanizer

Richard Ford

‘Austin turned up the tiny street – rue Sarrazin – at the head of which he hoped he would come to a larger one, one he knew, rue de Vaugirard, possibly, which he could take all the way to Josephine Belliard's apartment by the Luxembourg Gardens.’

Fiction | Issue 31

Electric City

Richard Ford

‘He loved the game of golf because it was a game other people found difficult and that was easy for him.’

Fiction by Richard Ford.

Fiction | Issue 21

Great Falls

Richard Ford

‘This is not a happy story. I warn you.’

Fiction | Issue 19

Empire

Richard Ford

‘Outside on the cold air, flames moved and divided and swarmed the sky. And Sims felt alone in a wide empire, removed and afloat, calmed, as if life was far away now, as if blackness was all around.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 15

On Harley-Davidson

Richard Ford

‘Jack Nicholson, I've heard, used to own one. And I understand why.’

Fiction | Issue 12

Winterkill

Richard Ford

‘He’d do anything in the world for something.’

Fiction | Issue 8

Rock Springs

Richard Ford

‘But as I read on a napkin once, between the idea and the act a whole kingdom lies. And I had a hard time with my acts, which were oftentimes offender's acts.’