Richard russo biography
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"There are no small lives, there are no small stories, there are no small people."
-- Richard Russo
Richard Russo is the nation’s most celebrated novelist of crumbling Rust Belt towns and the lives of their blue-collar inhabitants.
Richard russo biography
A son of Gloversville, he frequently sets his fiction in Upstate New York.
Russo received the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Empire Falls (2001), which was adapted as an HBO miniseries starring Ed Harris and Helen Hunt.
His most recent novel, Everybody’s Fool (2016), is a sequel to his 1993 novel Nobody’s Fool, which became an Oscar-nominated movie starring Paul Newman.
Russo’s new book is The Destiny Thief: Essays on Writing, Writers and L