Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo discusses his new book, Life and Art, a collection of 12 new essays about the intersection between his own life and the stories he chooses to tell. Russo examines his reasons for writing about others, through essays about his own relatives and about his past novels.
Richard Russo, author of nine novels, including Somebody’s Fool and Empire Falls, for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize; he has also written short story collections, a memoir, and screen adaptions of his work. He lives in Portland.
