Richard Price is a novelist and screenwriter, known for his books The Wanderers (1974), Clockers (1992) and (2008). Price's novels explore late-20th century urban America in a gritty, realistic manner. Several of his novels are set in a fictional northern New Jersey city called Dempsy. He also writes for television.
Discipline:
Literature
Richard Price
Discipline:
Literature
MacDowell Fellowships: 1979
Studios
Irving Fine
Richard Price worked in the Irving Fine studio.
Youngstown Studio was given to MacDowell by friends of Miss Myra McKeown in Youngstown, OH, where she promoted both art and music. It was renamed Irving Fine Studio in 1972 in honor of Irving Fine, a distinguished composer, conductor, and teacher who was a MacDowell Fellow during the 1940s and 1950s. The simple interior of the studio…