Richard Bausch

An acknowledged master of the short story, Richard Bausch has written 13 novels, 10 collections of short fiction, and 1 volume of poems and prose. He has won two National Magazine Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lila-Wallace Reader's Digest Fund Writer's Award, the Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2004 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, the prestgious REA Award for Short Fiction, and the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for his novel Peace. Three full length feature films have been made from his work. THE LAST GOOD TIME from his novel of that name, ENDANGERED SPECIES from six of his short stories, and RECON from his novel, PEACE. He is with the Writing Program at Chapman University, and is at work on his 14th novel, CHOPIN’S GHOST: A FABLE.