Entering the past is precarious business, Richard Ford tells us at the beginning of his thoughtful but uneven new memoir Between Them: Remembering My Parents, because the past “strives but always half ...

The University of Nevada, Reno and Donald W. Reynolds School of Journalism, in partnership with Nevada Humanities, will honor Richard Ford as the 2016 Robert Laxalt Distinguished Writer Monday, Nov. 7 ...

Parker Ford and Edna Akin grew up in the backwoods of Arkansas in the 1920s. Where they met — Little Rock or Hot Springs — is not entirely certain. When they met, the best guess is sometime before ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. “Be Mine” is the fifth book featuring Ford’s keen observer of American life, Frank Bascombe. By Dwight Garner Six new paperbacks to ...

Richard Ford is a true American. Start with his name, perfectly and hopelessly American. His voice retains the faint smoky sweetness of his native Mississippi. His clothes are plain: jeans, ...

Twenty years ago, novelist Richard Ford was scheduled to appear at the Good Thunder Reading Series at Minnesota State University. At the time, Ford was basking in the success of his breakout novel, ...

Richard Ford's parents were ordinary people, "all but un-noticeable to the world's disinterested eye." But the acclaimed writer still decided to write a memoir of their lives because, to him, being ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Ford plans to pen a fifth novel in his Frank Bascombe series — Page Six has exclusively learned — which began with the 1986 breakout “The Sportswriter.” At the ...

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Richard Ford keeps a small notebook on hand to record lines and phrases he wants to remember. Alongside many of them, he writes: “FB.” “FB” stands for Frank Bascombe, the wryly observant narrator of ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Ford's latest work, "The Lay of the Land," deals with protagonist Frank Bascombe as he prepares himself for a Thanksgiving family dinner after the 2000 election ...