RICHARD RUSSO is the author of nine novels, most recently Chances Are. . . , Everybody’ s Fool and That Old Cape Magic; two collections of stories; and the memoir Elsewhere. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which, like Nobody’ s Fool, won multiple awards for its screen adaptation, and in 2023 his novel Straight Man was adapted into the television series Lucky Hank. In 2017, he received France’ s Grand Prix de Litté rature Amé ricaine. He lives in Port land, Maine.