- Richard Ford was born on February 16, 1944 in Jackson, Mississippi, USA. He is a writer, known for Wildlife (2018), Bright Angel (1990) and Raymond Carver: Dreams Are What You Wake Up From (1989). He has been married to Kristina Hensley since 1968.
- SpouseKristina Hensley(1968 - present)
- American author, whose novel "Independence Day" won the 1996 Pullitzer Prize for Fiction.
- Best known for the Frank Bascombe series: "The Sportswriter" (1986), "Independence Day" (1995) and "The Lay of the Land" (2006).
- After living in the Garden District of New Orleans for many years, he now lives in Maine.
- Received a B.A. from Michigan State University.
- In 2016 Richard Ford received the Princess of Asturias Literature Award.
- (on novel-writing) You have to write a very good ending because you have created this artificial environment, and you've kept people in it, and you have to let them out. Really let them out, not just walk away and abandon them. You have to give them some ceremony that will release them, that will let the book do to them what it needs to do.
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