Richard Price Biography

Fast Facts

• Recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in 1999
• Served as a visiting mentor at the 2005 HatcH Audiovisual Festival held in Montana that provides help to future innovators in creative professions
• Graduated from Cornell University and later Columbia University as well
• Quote: "I prefer to write novels because, well, I'm a novelist․ I feel like an artist when I'm writing a novel, when I'm working on a screenplay I feel like a craftsman․"
• Quote: "(Regarding his dislike for screenwriting) "I don't enjoy doing my own books-I've just finished the book and presented my take on it, and now I have to take a 400-600 page book and turn it into a 115-page singing telegram․""
• Had his first novel published in 1974 at age 24 which was later turned into a feature film that debuted in 1979
• While not writing for Hollywood, he often teacher graduate course work at Columbia, Yale and NYU
• Disliked the idea of writing about The Bronx until reading "Last Exit to Brooklyn" in the early '70s