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Richard Price (born October 12, 1949) is an American novelist and screenwriter, known for the books The Wanderers (1974), Clockers (1992) and Lush Life (2008). Price's novels explore late-20th-century urban America in a gritty, realistic manner that has brought him considerable literary acclaim.
Here’s what writer Dennis Lehane (“Mystic River”) had to say about Price’s breakthrough 1993 novel, “Clockers”: “It just rattled me to my core. Reading it, I remember feeling, This ...
Writer: Sea of Love. Richard Price was born on 12 October 1949 in The Bronx, New York, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Sea of Love (1989), Ransom (1996) and The Color of Money (1986).
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Richard Price, The Art of Fiction No. 144. Interviewed by James Linville. Issue 138, Spring 1996. Lorraine Adams/Courtesy of Henry Holt & Co. Richard Price has proven that there can indeed be a third act in the career of an American writer.
Jul 7, 2016 · Price is the crime writer’s crime writer. One part Dickens, one part Ellroy, with a splash of Spike Lee. His books are grand affairs — hundreds upon hundreds of pages of urban decay, gallows humor, desperation, and moral vacuum. His screenwriting, for screens big and small, is just as ambitious.
Feb 17, 2015 · Price is the author of Clockers, the novel about police detectives and drug dealers that Price and Spike Lee adapted into a film. He also wrote for the HBO series The Wire, which was about...
Feb 12, 2015 · Richard Price’s new novel, written under a pseudonym, is about a New York detective and an unsolved case that haunts him.