Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.

“One of the country’s best writers. . . . No one looks harder at contemporary American life, sees more, or expresses it with such hushed, deliberate care.” — San Francisco Chronicle

An accomplished practitioner of the short story and the "Babe Ruth of novelists," ( Washington Post Book World) Richard Ford is the first writer to receive both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for a single book, his 1995 novel Independence Day .

Vintage Ford includes an excerpt from that novel, along with the stories “Communist,” and “Rock Springs” from his collection Rock Springs ; “Reunion,” and “Calling,” from A Multitude of Sins , which won him the 2001 PEN/Malamud Award; “The Womanizer,” from Women with Men .

Also included, for the first time in book form, the memoir, “My Mother, in Memory.”