Richard Price (born October 12, 1949 in the Bronx, New York) is an American novelist and screenwriter.

Life

A self-described "middle class Jewish kid",Richard Price, "The Fonzie of Literature", in The New York Times Book Review, October 25, 1981 Price grew up in a housing project in the northeast Bronx, and lives in New York City with his family.

Price graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1967, and obtained a BA from Cornell University and an MFA from Columbia. He also did graduate work at Stanford. He has taught writing at Columbia, Yale, and New York University. He was one of the first people interviewed on the NPR show Fresh Air when it went national in 1987. In 1999, he received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature.