Richard Russo
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Richard Russo was a professor at SIU in the 1980s and was teaching in SIU’s English department when his first novel, “Mohawk,†was published in 1986. r r Director Robert Benton adapted Russo’s 1993 novel Nobody’s Fool as a 1994 film of the same title, starring Paul Newman, which Benton directed. Russo also wrote the teleplay for the HBO adaptation of his 2001 Pultizer Prize winning novel, Empire Falls.r r Russo’s 1997 novel Straight Man was adapted by Paul Lieberstein and Aaron Zelman into a television show entitled Lucky Hank starring Bob Odenkirk for AMC. The series debuted on March 19, 2023 on AMC.r r He currently lives in Portland, Maine. r
Empire Falls
Bridge of sighs | Empire falls / | Everybody’s fool | Interventions : | Mohawk / | Nobody’s fool / | Straight Man. | That old Cape magic | The collected stories of Richard Yates / | The risk pool / | The whore’s child :