Pulitzer winner to lecture today Sep 18, 2009
Richard Ford, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Independence Day," will lecture this morning at the University of Georgia Chapel. Ford will deliver the annual UGA Ferdinand Phinizy Lecture at 11 a.m. His talk is free and open to the public. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Writers trace the powerful ties to their brothers Jun 21, 2009
The band of brothers that look back and forth at each other in these pages are almost all highly accomplished scribblers such as Frank McCourt, Richard Ford, Tobias and Geoffrey Wolff, John Edgar Wideman, Pete Hamill. Given the connection between wordsmiths and wounds, it may be no mistake that most of these poignant stories spread out slowly like blood from a gash. (Boston Globe)
Bakery booms Jun 2, 2009
Richard Ford, Grocer Magazine ... People are "treating themselves with small things, rather than buying new cars," says Richard Ford at the Grocer Magazine. (BBC News -- UK)
Miss. author Welty's memory honored Apr 14, 2009
"Miss Eudora was in the hospital. "One of the things that has stuck with me about her is that she always acknowledged me to other people," Howard said. Sometimes people who wanted to meet a legend visited. Sometimes Welty was visited by other legends. "I met lots of her friends - (journalists) Jim Lehrer, Roger Mudd, (writers) Richard Ford, Willie Morris," Howard said. "She loved reading. One of the things she looked forward to most was getting The New Yorker. (The Clarion-Ledger)
100th birthday bash: Eudora Welty fans ready to party Apr 5, 2009
Millsaps College hosts a joint meeting of the Southern Literary Festival and Eudora Welty Society, with readings by such prominent authors as Elizabeth Spencer, Ann Patchett and Richard Ford open to the public ... "She was always very self-effacing about it. But she would have a good time, I think. "She would love having the other writers here and hearing them speak - an old friend like Elizabeth Spencer, a younger friend like Richard Ford, Alfred Uhry. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Jackson's Favorite Daughter Mar 29, 2009
Next door to the school, at 736 North Congress, is the house where author and fellow Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford ("Independence Day") spent his youth ... Panels, discussions with authors and Welty scholars including Richard Ford, Ann Patchett, Alfred Uhry and Welty biographer Suzanne Marrs. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Iconic writer John Updike dead at age 76 Feb 7, 2009
He's certainly been on the screen of my life since I was a teenager, says fellow author Richard Ford, 64, speaking just hours after he learned of the death Tuesday of the 76-year-old Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-novelist and man of letters who had been ill with lung cancer. He's a person who dedicated his life to writing, who wasn't a teacher, and, most importantly, wrote very serious books that a lot of people read, Ford said. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
