Richard Price (writer)
| Richard Price | |
|---|---|
| Born |
October 12, 1949 The Bronx, New York City, United States |
| Pen name | Harry Brandt |
| Occupation | Novelist, screenwriter, journalist |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | B.A,. Cornell University MFA, Columbia University |
| Period | 1974 - present |
| Genre | Crime Fiction, Drama, Mystery |
| Notable works | The Wanderers, Clockers |
| Spouse | Lorraine Adams |
Richard Price (born October 12, 1949) is an American novelist and screenwriter, known for the books The Wanderers (1974), Clockers (1992) and Lush Life (2008). Price's novels explore late-20th century urban America in a gritty, realistic manner that has brought him considerable literary acclaim. Several of his novels are set in a fictional northern New Jersey city called Dempsy. In addition to writing literature, he writes for television, including The Wire and The Night Of.
Price was born in the Bronx, New York City, the son of Harriet (Rosenbaum) and Milton Price, a window dresser. A self-described "lower middle class Jewish kid", he grew up in a housing project in the northeast Bronx. He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1967 and obtained a B.A. from Cornell University and an MFA from Columbia University. He also did graduate work at Stanford University.
Price's first novel was The Wanderers (1974), a coming-of-age story set in the Bronx in 1962, written when Price was 24 years old. It was adapted into a film in 1979, with a screenplay by Rose Kaufman and Philip Kaufman and directed by the latter.
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