The Sportswriter

The Sportswriter

infobox Book |
name = The Sportswriter
title_orig =
translator =


image_caption = Cover to the first edition
author = Richard Ford
cover_artist = Lorraine Louie (design), Rick Lovell (illustration)
country = United States
language = English
series =
genre = Novel
publisher = Vintage
release_date = March 1986
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 375 pp
isbn = ISBN 0394743253
preceded_by =
followed_by = Independence Day

"The Sportswriter" is a 1986 novel by Richard Ford. It is about a failed novelist turned sportswriter who undergoes a spiritual crisis following the death of his son. In 1995, it was followed by a sequel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Independence Day". A third installment "The Lay of the Land" followed in 2006.
The book is being made into a six-hour HBO miniseries..

Awards and nominations

The novel became Ford's "breakout book" and was named one of "Time" magazine's five best books of 1986 and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2005, "Time" also named it one of the 100 best novels in English from the preceding 82 years. [http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the_complete_list.html]

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