Richard Russo is the author of Empire Falls, a novel that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and was also named the year’s best novel by Time magazine. The book was also adapted into an acclaimed HBO mini-series starring Paul Newman and Helen Hunt. He is also the author of the novels Mohawk, The Risk Pool, Nobody’s Fool, Straight Man and The Whore’s Child and Other Stories. His most recent book is Bridge of Sighs, published by Knopf. Russo is also an accomplished screenwriter. He resides with his wife in coastal Maine.