Talk:Richard Ford

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Boy who worked on railroad trains[edit]

Ford discussed the significance in his life of a job as a train engineer's assistant when he was only 19 years old. See: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/20/business/a-boy-who-played-with-trains.html?pagewanted=2&adxnnl=1&ref=todayspaper&adxnnlx=1382277771-iLUaoLNlHALfslMMiU9JjA&pagewanted=all — Preceding unsigned comment added by Publius3 (talk • contribs) 15:30, 20 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Untitled[edit]

Are these novels? Poems? Songs? What?

Short stories. Check the bottom. Liz 03:06, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Can we change the title of the "quotes" section to "quotations"?

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Improvements, February 2009[edit]

I've added a number of footnotes to this article, where previously there were none, and have generally tried to improve the substance and clarity of the article. I hope to add some more material in due course, and shall also have a go at improving the pages relating to RF's major works.Macphysto (talk) 10:44, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

incomprehensible sentence[edit]

What is this sentence trying to say?

Since the Rock Springs collection, Ford's fiction, particularly the "Frank Bascombe" novels (The Sportswriter, Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land), enjoy material affluence and cultural capital not associated with so-called "dirty realist" style and subject matter. Bacrito (talk) 18:22, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The paragraph was rewritten (not by me) 3 years ago (diff). The older version was comprehensible, and I have reincorporated some of that material. What do you think?--ShelfSkewed Talk 18:46, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Is this the author of Faradawn?[edit]

Quest for the Faradawn is a book I truly enjoyed, and I was surprised to find that not only is there no page for it or its series, but there's absolutely no mention at all on Wikipedia. The author is named Richard Ford, so I want to know: is this the same Richard Ford, or was it a different author? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.45.169.2 (talk) 18:38, 5 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I confess, I don't know. However, the reason you have not received an answer (after almost 5 years!) is more because this is not the proper forum for such questions. The Discussion or "Talk" page is intended strictly for improvement of the referenced page. (My guess would be no, different R. Ford, as the biblio seems well developed. Try Amazon, or Abe Books, or Reddit. Or a search engine search: Google or DuckDuckGo.) rags (talk) 17:40, 28 September 2017 (UTC) rags[reply]

I'm sure by now you have your answer. In the interest of closure, I determined that your R Ford, author of QftF is working in the fantasy genre, unlike this R Ford, who is more along the lines of Steinbeck or John Irving. Both Richard and Ford are quite common names, so that was likely. rags (talk) 18:17, 28 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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