[Yale-readings] Today! Pierson College Master’s Tea with Richard Price

[Nancy Kuhl]

You are invited to a Pierson College Master’s Tea with
Richard Price
best selling novelist and screenwriter
TODAY at 4:00 pm in Swing Space

More information about Price and his work follows (excerpted from 
http://www.popentertainment.com/price.htm, by Ronald Sklar).

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.

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, The Wanderers, 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 
Bloodbrothers, Ladies' Man and The Breaks, which cemented Price's 
reputation for dead-on dialogue and an unblinking eye.

Soon, Hollywood called. He penned the screenplays for The Color of Money, 
Sea of Love and Ransom (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.).

He returned to to the novel form in the nineties, producing such best 
sellers as Clockers and Freedomland. He currently lives in Manhattan with 
his wife (the painter Judith Hudson) and two teenage daughters.

Everything that you've read above is absolutely true, even though it's hard 
to believe.

His latest novel, Samaritan, 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.



Nancy Kuhl
Assistant Curator, The Yale Collection of American Literature
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Yale University
121 Wall Street
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520-8240
Phone: 203.432.2966
Fax: 203.432.4047
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