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Richard Ford, Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction Winner

External Resources

Learn more about Richard Ford through external resources including news feeds, articles, audio, and video, as well as book reviews and awards.

For the latest news and discussion about Richard Ford, check the following resources:

Selected Articles, Interviews, and Conversations

The following list includes news articles, interviews, and conversations featuring Richard Ford, arranged in chronological order.

"Richard Ford Returns With a New Collection of Stories" External
Columbia News, Columbia University. May 13, 2020.
"Richard Ford: 'I didn't finish a book until I was 19'" External
The Guardian. May 9, 2020.
"Richard Ford: ‘In America no one will stay at home’" External
The Irish Times. May 9, 2020.
"Oppositional Thinking, Pure Sensation, and a Good Journal: The Artistic Toolkit of Richard Ford" External
Los Angeles Review of Books. July 11, 2019.
"Richard Ford Wins Library of Congress Award: ‘Winning a prize is a great exception to the rule of a writer’s life’" External
Mississippi Today. May 18, 2019.
"Maine Author Richard Ford to Receive Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction" External
Bangor Daily News. May 16, 2019.
"Author Richard Ford Keeps His Parents’ Memories Alive in New Memoir" External
Rancho Santa Fe Review. May 14, 2019.
"Interview with Author Richard Ford: Various Jobs Help Frame Literary Work" External
The Columbus Dispatch. April 22, 2019.
"Richard Ford's Classic 1990 Montana Novel 'Wildlife' Finally Hits the Big Screen" External
The Billings Gazette. November 9, 2018.
"How Paul Dano Came to Adapt a Richard Ford Novel for His Movie 'Wildlife'" External
The New Yorker. October 17, 2018.
"Author Richard Ford on the Power of Literature" External
Deutsche Welle. September 28, 2018.
"Richard Ford on the Drama of Adolescence" External
The New Yorker. July 30, 2018.
"For Decades Author Richard Ford has Continued Returning to Montana, in Life and in Fiction" External
The Billings Gazette. November 5, 2017.
"Richard Ford’s Appetite for the Transgressive" External
Vanity Fair. June 15, 2017.
"Richard Ford’s Beautiful Tribute to His Parents" External
The Irish Times. May 20, 2017.
"Parents Are People First — Who May Even Love Each Other More Than the Kids" External
Salon. May 14, 2017.
"Novelist Richard Ford Remembers His Parents in 'Between Them'" External
USA Today. May 2, 2017.
"Richard Ford’s New Memoir, ‘Between Them: Remembering My Parents’" External
The Washington Post. May 1, 2017.
"Novelist Richard Ford: ‘I write about what scares me the most’" External
Financial Times. April 28, 2017.
"Richard Ford: Heart of the Country" External
Newsweek. November 13, 2014.
"Novelist Richard Ford on Ireland, Lost Friends and His Accidental Career" External
The Guardian. November 2, 2014.
"Interview: Richard Ford" External
Financial Times. October 19, 2012.
"Richard Ford: By the Book" External
The New York Times. June 21, 2012.
"Richard Ford: Novels Were Never a Sacred Calling" External
The Telegraph. October 7, 2011.

A selection of radio programs featuring Richard Ford, or in which Ford and his work are discussed.

"Striving for Better with Richard Ford and Jacqueline Woodson" External
ABC [Australian Broadcasting Company]. June 29, 2020.
"'If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure,' says Award-Winning Author Richard Ford" External
The Sunday Edition, CBC Radio. June 19, 2020.
"A Conversation with the Celebrated American Writer Richard Ford" External
Studio Tulsa on 89.5, Public Radio Tulsa. December 1, 2017.
"For Richard Ford, Memoir Is A Chance To 'Tell The Unthinkable'" External
Fresh Air, NPR. May 2, 2017.
"Writer Richard Ford" External
Fresh Air, NPR. October 30, 2015.
"Author Richard Ford Says 'Let Me Be Frank' About Aging And Dying" External
Fresh Air, NPR. November 12, 2014.
"Richard Ford And The Usefulness Of Fiction" External
The Write Question, Montana Public Radio. August 27, 2014.
"Richard Ford's 'The Lay of the Land'" External
Morning Edition, NPR. November 2, 2006.

Podcasts and other non-radio audio recordings featuring Richard Ford are listed below.

"#12: Richard Ford on Flouncing and Failure" External
City of Books with Martina Devlin. July 10, 2020.
"2020 Winter Series, Ep. 5: Richard Ford, Amy McDaid, Yasmin Khan" External
Auckland Writer's Festival. May 30, 2020.
"Richard Ford Reads 'Displaced'" External
The Writer's Voice: Fiction from the Magazine, The New Yorker. July 31, 2018.
"Richard Ford Discusses His Family Memoir" External
The Guardian Books Podcast , The Guardian. June 6, 2017.
"Richard Ford | 'Between Them: Remembering My Parents'" External
Free Library of Philadelphia Podcast. May 2, 2017.
"Richard Ford on Donald Trump" External
The TLS Podcast. July 13, 2016.
"Podcast #37: Richard Ford on Becoming a Reader and Finding a Voice" External
Library Talks Podcast, New York Public Library. November 20, 2014.
"Episode 29: The Heart of Things Human: Richard Ford in Conversation with Ron Charles" External
PEN/Faulkner Reading Series Podcast. April 22, 2014.
"Richard Ford: 'Canada,' Part 2" External
Bookworm Podcast, KCRW. June 28, 2012.
"Richard Ford: 'Canada,' Part 1" External
Bookworm Podcast, KCRW. June 21, 2012.
"An Evening with Novelist Richard Ford" External
ALOUD Podcasts, Los Angeles Public Library. May 31, 2012.
"Richard Ford Reads John Cheever" External
The New Yorker: Fiction, The New Yorker. May 3, 2007.
"Richard Ford" External
Bookclub Podcast, BBC Radio 4. April 3, 2005.

Many videos of Richard Ford reading and discussing his work can be found through YouTube:

YouTube - "Richard Ford" search results External

A selection of videos available through YouTube and other sites appears below.

"So Much to Declare with Richard Ford and Geoffrey Harpham" External
Charleston to Charleston Literary Festival [YouTube]. November 8, 2020.
"An Evening with Authors John Banville and Richard Ford" External
Bowdoin College [YouTube]. November 14, 2019.
"Meet Pulitzer Prize Winner Richard Ford | A Talk about the End of the American Dream" External
DW Books [YouTube]. September 2, 2019.
"Richard Ford — MPB Books" External
Mississippi Public Broadcasting [YouTube]. June 25, 2019.
"Paul Dano & Richard Ford on Wildlife | Film Comment Talk" External
Film at Lincoln Center [YouTube]. October 29, 2018.
"Master Class with Richard Ford: What Makes A Good Writer" External
Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival [YouTube]. June 27, 2018.
"Richard Ford: Remembering My Parents" External
Foyles [YouTube]. June 13, 2017.
"To Richard Ford, Writing a Memoir is to Utter What Must Not Be Erased" External
PBS NewsHour. May 19, 2017.
"Richard Ford Interview: Art is Heavy Lifting" External
Louisiana Channel [YouTube]. May 17, 2016.
"Writers On Writing | Richard Ford" External
HarperCollins Studio [YouTube]. May 12, 2016.
"Dialogue: Author Richard Ford" External
Idaho Public Television [YouTube]. November 6, 2015.
"Richard Ford" External
WheelerCentre [YouTube}. January 27, 2015.
"Author Richard Ford on Reading Classic Literature" External
MPR News [YouTube]. December 5, 2014.
"Richard Ford Interview: Shooting for the Stars" External
Louisiana Channel [YouTube]. December 17, 2012.
"Richard Ford On His New Book 'Canada'" External
Wall Street Journal [YouTube]. May 23, 2012.

Selected online reviews of Richard Ford's books appear below.

Sorry for Your Trouble (2020)

Between Them (2017)

Let Me Be Frank With You (2014)

Canada (2012)

The Lay of the Land (2006)

Independence Day (1995)

The Sportswriter (1986)

Richard Ford has won numerous awards and honors for his writing, including the following: