Mark Richard

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Mark Richard is an American short story writer, novelist, screenwriter, and poet.http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0898/richard/interview.html Interview with Mark Richard He is the author of two award-winning short story collections, The Ice at the Bottom of the World and Charity, a bestselling novel, Fishboy, and House of Prayer No. 2: A Writer's Journey Home.{{Cite web|url=https://litreactor.com/interviews/growing-up-in-the-company-of-books-the-life-of-mark-richard|title=Growing up in the Company of Books - the Life of Mark Richard}}

Early life

Mark Richard was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and grew up in Texas and Virginia. As heard on the Diane Rehm Show on NPR: He grew up in the 1960s in a racially divided rural town in Virginia. His family was poor. He was born with deformed hips and spent years in and out of charity hospitals. When his father walked out, his mother withdrew further into a world of faith. In a new memoir "House of Prayer No. 2" he details growing up in the American South as a "The Special Child" and how the racial tensions and religious fervor of his home town animate his writing today.{{cite news| url=http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2011-02-09/mark-richard-house-prayer-no-2 |title=Mark Richard: "House of Prayer No. 2" |date=February 9, 2011}}

He attended college at Washington and Lee University.

Career

His first book, the short story collection The Ice at the Bottom of the World, won the 1990 PEN/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award. His short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, GQ, The Paris Review, The Oxford American, Grand Street, Shenandoah, The Quarterly, Equator, and Antaeus.

He is the recipient of the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Award, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Whiting Award, a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, the Mary Francis Hobson Medal for Arts and Letters, and a National Magazine Award for Fiction. He has been writer-in-residence at the University of California Irvine, University of Mississippi, Arizona State University, the University of the South, Sewanee, and The Writer's Voice in New York. His journalism has appeared in The New York Times, Harper's, Spin, Esquire, George, Detour, Vogue, The Oxford American, and The Southern Review, and he has been a correspondent for the BBC.

He has also worked as a screenwriter, writing the 2008 war drama Stop-Loss. He wrote and produced on several television series, such as Chicago Hope, The Man in the High Castle, Fear the Walking Dead and Hell on Wheels. He co-created and wrote the Showtime limited series, The Good Lord Bird, which starred Ethan Hawke as abolitionist John Brown.{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2020/06/showtime-the-good-lord-bird-we-hunt-together-1202968735/ |title=Showtime Pushes Back Abolitionist Miniseries 'The Good Lord Bird', Picks Up British Drama 'We Hunt Together' To Fill Slot |website=Deadline Hollywood |publisher=Penske Media Corporation |first=Peter |last=White |date=June 24, 2020 |access-date=June 24, 2020 |archive-date=October 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201007141157/https://deadline.com/2020/06/showtime-the-good-lord-bird-we-hunt-together-1202968735/ |url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2020/hollywood-producer-relishes-new-role-at-wm.php|title = 'The Good Lord Bird' producer relishes new role at W&M}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.wga.org/writers-room/features-columns/the-craft/2020/the-good-lord-bird-ethan-hawke-mark-richard|title=In the Army of the Lord}}

Personal life

He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Jennifer Allen and their three sons.

References

External links

[http://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/podcasts/podcast-stephen-usery-interviews-mark-richard/ Podcast: Stephen Usery Interviews Mark Richard]
[http://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/mark-richard#/ Profile at The Whiting Foundation]
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Category:Washington and Lee University alumni

Category:Living people

Category:1955 births

Category:Writers from Lake Charles, Louisiana

Category:20th-century American novelists

Category:American male novelists

Category:American male screenwriters

Category:National Endowment for the Arts Fellows

Category:University of California, Irvine faculty

Category:University of Mississippi faculty

Category:Arizona State University faculty

Category:Sewanee: The University of the South faculty