Richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1944. He is the author of three collections of short stories, Rock Springs, Women Without Men and A Multitude ofSins, and six novels, A Piece of My Heart, The Ultimate Good Luck, Wildlife, TheSportswriter, Independence Day (which won the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner award in 1996) and The Lay of theLand. He is the editor of The Granta Book of the American Short Story and The Granta Book of the American Long Story.
