Richard Ford: Independence Day

PBS NewsHour

Apr 1996 · NewsHour Productions · Narrated by PBS NewsHour

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Independence Day is the long awaited sequel to The Sportswriter released in 1986. In this interview, Richard Ford discusses winning the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner Awards, the context of Independence Day, writing a sequel, and more; hear a portion of the novel.

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