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Richard Russo


USA flag (b.1949)

Richard Russo is the author of seven previous novels; two collections of stories; and Elsewhere, a memoir. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which like Nobody’s Fool was adapted to film, in a multiple-award-winning HBO miniseries.
 

Awards: Pulitzer (2002)  see all

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
May 2025

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Life and Art
 
Series
Nobody's Fool
   1. Nobody's Fool (1993)
   2. Everybody's Fool (2016)
   3. Somebody's Fool (2023)
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Novels
   Mohawk (1986)
   The Risk Pool (1988)
   Straight Man (1997)
   Empire Falls (2001)
   Bridge of Sighs (2007)
   That Old Cape Magic (2009)
   Chances Are (2019)
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Collections
   The Whore's Child (2002)
   Interventions (2012)
   Trajectory (2017)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   The Mysteries of Linwood Hart (2016)
   Sh*tshow (2019)
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Anthologies edited
   The Book of Eros (1995) (with Lily Pond)
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Books containing stories by Richard Russo

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Awards
2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction : Empire Falls

Award nominations
2017 Wodehouse Prize (nominee) : Everybody's Fool


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The Lost Story (2024)
Meg Shaffer
"If our sad, brutal, cynical, cowardly, unkind, exhausting world is too much for you, if you'd like to dream instead of a parallel world where love and loyalty and friendship are the magic that transforms the least of us into genuine heroes, then Meg Shaffer's The Lost Story is the book you've been waiting for. And here's the real magic. When you return from that enchanted place to the world you wanted to escape from, you'll find it's changed. Why? Because you have."
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Familiaris (2024)
(Sawtelle Family, book 2)
David Wroblewski
"Suppose you could do one impossible thing," John Sawtelle says in David Wroblewski's stunning new novel Familiaris. What would you do? Clearly, what the author would do and has done is write this impossibly wise, impossibly ambitious, impossibly beautiful book."
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Help Wanted (2024)
Adelle Waldman
"Help Wanted isn't just smart and funny and wise. It's also important-vital, really-to our understanding of how and why the American dream is becoming increasingly inaccessible to working class Americans, even as that long-shot dream stubbornly refuses to die."

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