Russo is now retired from the faculty of Colby College and lives in Camden, Maine. Russo's novel, Bridge of Sighs, was released on 25 September 2007 and Random House released his most recent novel, That Old Cape Magic, on 4 August 2009.

Russo wrote the teleplay for the HBO adaptation of Empire Falls, the screenplay for the 2005 film Ice Harvest and the screenplay for the 2005 Niall Johnson film Keeping Mum, which starred Rowan Atkinson.

Russo co-wrote the 1998 film Twilight with director Robert Benton, who also adapted and directed Russo's Nobody's Fool into a 1994 film of the same name, starring Paul Newman. He has written five other novels: Mohawk, The Risk Pool, Nobody's Fool, Straight Man, and Bridge of Sighs, as well as a short story collection, The Whore's Child. His novel Empire Falls, published in 2001, won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He was teaching in the English department at Southern Illinois University Carbondale when his first novel, Mohawk, was published. He earned a Bachelor's degree, a Master of Fine Arts degree, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Arizona, which he attended from 1967 through 1979. The show is based on the novel of the same. VJ Books Presents Author Richard Russo! Richard Russo was born on Jin Johnstown, New York and raised in nearby Gloversville. AMC has formally greenlit the dramedy series Straight Man starring Bob Odenkirk a little over two weeks after announcing the show as in development. The show has terrific comic moments, but it’s fundamentally more serious. You are here: Home > Our Authors > Russo, Richard Straight Man is a campus comedy, yes, but it’s also a farce: Lucky Hank is a dramedy, if anyone still uses that term.

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