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Reading by Pulitzer Prize-Winning Writer Richard Ford
March 29, 2016, 7:00 PM
Free
Richard Ford, born in Jackson, Miss., is the author of eleven books of fiction, including The Sportswriter, Independence Day, Canada, and Let Me Be Frank With You, and the short story collections Rock Springs and A Multitude of Sins. He’s won a Pulitzer Prize, a Carnegie Gold Medal for Fiction, the PEN-Faulkner Award, and the Prix Femina Etrangere in France. His stories have been widely anthologized, and he writes often on politics and culture for newspapers in Europe. He is Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University in New York City, and he received an honorary doctor of letters degree from Colby in 2011.