page_title: Richard Russo
hierarchical_section_title: Richard Russo
caption_attribution_description: English: American writer Richard Russo at America Festival (Vincennes, France). His 2001 novel Empire Falls received the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Français&#160;: L'écrivain américain Richard Russo au Festival America, à Vincennes
context_page_description: Richard Russo is an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and teacher.
context_section_description: Richard Russo (born July 15, 1949) is an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and teacher.
caption: Russo in 2008
exif: {"Image Make": "SONY", "Image Model": "DSC-H9", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop CS2 Windows", "Image DateTime": "2008:09:27 23:44:31", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Co-sited", "Image Rating": "0", "Image Tag 0x5012": "1", "Image CustomRendered": "Normal", "Image ExposureMode": "Auto Exposure", "Image WhiteBalance": "Auto", "Image SceneCaptureType": "Standard", "Image Contrast": "Normal", "Image Saturation": "Normal", "Image Sharpness": "Normal", "Image PrintIM": "[80, 114, 105, 110, 116, 73, 77, 0, 48, 51, 48, 48, 0, 0, 2, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0]", "Image OffsetSchema": "44", "Image ExifOffset": "372", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "814", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "5107", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/125", "EXIF FNumber": "4", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Program Normal", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "400", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0221", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2008:09:27 16:51:19", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2008:09:27 16:51:19", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF CompressedBitsPerPixel": "4", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MaxApertureValue": "23/8", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Pattern", "EXIF LightSource": "Unknown", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "218/5", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "818", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "1251", "EXIF FileSource": "Digital Camera", "EXIF SceneType": "Directly Photographed"}