Richard Ford

Richard Ford is a literary fiction author of short fiction and novels usually about damaged and lonely people. He grew up in Jackson Mississippi and went to Michigan State University for his bachelor’s degree. Ford then went to the University of California, Irvine, and Washington University Law School after which he became a professor at several universities and colleges across the United States. During the 1980s, he got jobs working as a sportswriter though he never got to settle down in one place for very long. During this time, he got married to air force child Kristina and together they lived all over the United States. For a time, they lived in New Orleans since his wife was a director of city planning there though the hours she kept drove him crazy. The two got divorced and Ford lived in Paris for a while before he came back and started living in Maine. Richard published his debut novel “A Piece of My Heart” in 1976 and has never looked back since. He currently lives in Maine and is a professor at Columbia teaching English and writing his novels and short stories.