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<font size=2><b>You are invited to a Pierson College Master’s Tea
with<br>
Richard Price<br>
best selling novelist and screenwriter<br>
TODAY at 4:00 pm in Swing Space<br>
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More information about Price and his work follows (excerpted from
</font><font size=2 color="#0000FF"><u>http://www.popentertainment.com/price.htm</u></font><font size=2>,
by Ronald Sklar).<br>
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If Richard Price's life story were made into a movie, you would accuse
the joint of being too far-fetched. But, as the old cliché goes, truth is
stranger than fiction.<br>
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Price came up in a Bronx housing project, but his gift for writing gained
him entrance into the some of the nation's top colleges. He thrived at
Cornell, Columbia and Stanford, despite his feeling like a fish out of
water. His first novel, <i>The</i> <i>Wanderers</i>, was published when
he was twenty-four. Incredible in itself, and yet the book became
critically acclaimed and was later turned into a film that gained a loyal
cult following. A string of semi-autobiographical books followed,
including <i>Bloodbrothers, Ladies' Man</i> and <i>The Breaks</i>, which
cemented Price's reputation for dead-on dialogue and an unblinking
eye.<br>
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Soon, Hollywood called. He penned the screenplays for <i>The Color of
Money, Sea of Love</i> and <i>Ransom</i> (all blockbusters). He worked
closely with the Who's Who of Hollywood Shoo-Be-Doo: Martin Scorsese,
Robert DeNiro, Harvey Keitel, Spike Lee, Tom Cruise, Mel Gibson, Nicolas
Cage, and even Michael Jackson (he was hired to write the dialogue for
the eighteen-minute mini-movie adjoining the "Bad"
video.).<br>
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He returned to to the novel form in the nineties, producing such best
sellers as <i>Clockers</i> and <i>Freedomland</i>. He currently lives in
Manhattan with his wife (the painter Judith Hudson) and two teenage
daughters.<br>
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Everything that you've read above is absolutely true, even though it's
hard to believe.<br>
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His latest novel, <i>Samaritan</i>, concerns one Ray Mitchell, a former
television writer who returns to his roots, a New Jersey housing project,
to reunite with his daughter and spread the love. In being a good
samaritan, however, he gets more than he bargained for.<br>
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Nancy Kuhl<br>
Assistant Curator, The Yale Collection of American Literature<br>
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library<br>
Yale University<br>
121 Wall Street<br>
P.O. Box 208240<br>
New Haven, CT 06520-8240<br>
Phone: 203.432.2966 <br>
Fax: 203.432.4047</font></html>