Richard Russo at the NYS Writers Institute in 2009

An excerpt from an October 15, 2009 interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo at the New York State Writers Institute (http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/).

Richard Russo, novelist, son of Gloversville, NY, and Pulitzer Prize-winner for "Empire Falls" (2001), is widely regarded as the most important writer about "Main St., USA" since Sherwood Anderson and Sinclair Lewis.

Russo's other novels include "Nobody's Fool" (1993), which was adapted for the screen starring Paul Newman, "The Risk Pool" (1988) and "Mohawk" (1986).

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