A Conversation with Novelist Richard Ford

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Published October 26, 2006 at 9:00 AM MDT

Richard Ford, author of The Sportswriter and Independence Day, has written a new novel entitled The Lay of the Land. Independence Day was the first book to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award.

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