Richard Ford

<p>Richard Ford, a novelist and short story writer, is best known for a trilogy of prize-winning books featuring Frank Bascombe, a middle-aged Everyman from suburban New Jersey. <i>Independence Day</i>, the second Bascombe novel, won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Pen Faulkner Award. <i>Canada</i>, a more recent bestseller that inhabits the consciousness of a fragile teenager after his family implodes, is another quiet masterpiece from one of America’s most acclaimed writers.</p>