Richard Ford letters to Bill Barich

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Richard Ford letters to Bill Barich

1988-1999

With one letter from Beth McCabe to Ford about Ford's letter of nomination of Barich's work for a Whiting Writer's Award.

.05 linear feet

eng, Latn

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SNAC Resource ID: 11659972

Houghton Library

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Barich, Bill, 1943-

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Bill Barich (born 1943 in Winona, Minnesota) is an American writer. He grew up on Long Island and graduated from Colgate University in 1965. Subsequently, he served in the U.S. Peace Corps in eastern Nigeria (then the Republic of Biafra), then settled in northern California where many of his books are set. Barich published Laughing in the Hills, his first book, a classic account of racetrack life, in 1980. William Shawn, editor of The New Yorker, ran a two-part excerpt from the book and appoi...

Ford, Richard, 1944-

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Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is an American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel The Sportswriter and its sequels, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land,nd Let Me Be Frank With You, and the short story collection Rock Springs, which contains several widely anthologized stories. Ford received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction snd the PEN/Faulkner Award for Independence Day in 1996.Ford's novel Wildlife was adapted into a 2018 film of the same name. He won the ...