Richard Ford | 2019 National Book Festival
Season 2021
About the Episode
Richard Ford, author of The Sportswriter and its sequels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Independence Day. Remarked by literary reviewers as a modern-day Hemingway or Faulkner, Ford's works are distinguished by a focus on the perseverance of family and community through turbulent circumstances.
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