A Pulitzer Prize-winning Mississippi writer will sign his newest novel Tuesday at Greenwood’s Turnrow Book Co.
Richard Ford will also read from the book, “Canada,” as part of a luncheon series beginning at noon.
The 68-year-old Jackson native first gained widespread attention with his 1986 novel “The Sportswriter.”
Its sequel, 1995’s “Independence Day,” won him both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the prestigious PEN/Faulkner Award. Ford completed the book while living in Greenwood during the early 1990s.
He’s a writing professor at the Columbia University School of the Arts in New York City and formerly taught fiction at Ole Miss.
“Canada” was published in May. It’s told by a narrator both when he was a 15-year-old whose parents have been convicted of robbing a bank and after he’s grown up and is a retired English teacher.
The New Yorker called it “a hearty meal of a novel.”
“If one is looking for a powerful through-line of suspense and drama, one will not find it in this book: instead one must take a more scenic and meditative trip,” the magazine said in its review.
