Authors on Main: Richard Russo

RICHARD RUSSO is the author of ten novels, most recently Somebody's Fool, Chances Are . . . , Everybody’s Fool, and That Old Cape Magic; two collections of stories; the memoir Elsewhere; and the essay collection Life and Art. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which, like Nobody’s Fool, won multiple awards for its screen adaptation, and in 2023 his novel Straight Man was adapted into the television series Lucky Hank. In 2017 he received France’s Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine. He lives in Port­land, ME.

Richard will discussing his latest novel UNDER THE FALLS - a spellbinding page-turner about a crime in a small town that exposes long-held secrets and betrayals among a group of lifelong friends. Under the Falls is at once a propulsive thriller, a gut-wrenching portrait of a tight-knit rural community undone by the sins of its past, and an unflinchingly honest depiction of how porous the line between right and wrong, good versus evil, can become.