Richard Ford

Richard Ford is the author of The Sportswriter and Independence Day. He is winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Prix Femina in France, the 2019 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, and the Princess of Asturias Award in Spain. He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Canada. His story collections include the bestseller Let Me Be Frank with You, Rock Springs, and A Multitude of Sins. The stories in Ford’s collection Sorry For your Trouble (Ecco) take us to a young man’s Mississippi adolescence, and to a shocking encounter with a young Irish immigrant (“Displaced”); then bring us along as an American woman takes a late-in-life journey to Canada to bid good-bye to a lost love now facing the end of this life (“Driving Up”). “Nothing to Declare” follows a man and a woman’s chance re-meeting in the New Orleans French Quarter, after twenty years, and their discovery of what’s left of love for them. Sorry for Your Trouble is a moving meditation on memory, love and loss. The Wall Street Journal noted that “In these superbly wrought tales he catches, with exquisite precision, what Emerson in his scholarly address failed to mention, the irresistible melancholy that is the mark of American life.”