Canada

Born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1944, Richard Ford is an American novelist and short story writer whose work often explores memory, family, and the unsettled edges of everyday life. He studied at Michigan State University and later earned an MFA from the University of California, Irvine.

Ford has written several widely admired books, including The Sportswriter, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land, and Canada. Independence Day made literary history by winning both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award.

Readers often return to his work for its plainspoken style, moral depth, and close attention to how people live with regret, hope, and change. In Canada, those strengths are on full display in a story that begins with a shocking crime and grows into a moving meditation on loyalty and survival.