Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944, Jackson, Mississippi) is the author of A Piece Of My Heart, The Ultimate Good Luck, The Sportswriter and its sequel Independence Day, Wildlife, and a volume of short stories, Rock Springs. He edited The Granta Book Of The American Short Story Richard Ford has won The Pen/Falkner award for fiction and The Pulitzer Prize for Independence Day. He is considered to be one of America's finest short story writers and a superb master of the novel. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.