Lush Life: A Novel

Richard Price is an American novelist and screenwriter, known for the books The Wanderers and Clockers. A self-described "middle class Jewish kid", Price was born in the Bronx, New York City and 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. He has taught writing at Columbia, Yale University, and New York University. He was one of the first people interviewed on the NPR show Fresh Air when it began airing nationally in 1987. In 1999, he received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. 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 his review of Lush Life , Walter Kirn compared Price to Raymond Chandler and Saul Bellow. Price's first novel was The Wanderers , a coming-of-age story set in the Bronx in 1962, written when Price was 24 years old.
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