Richard Price (writer)
Richard Price (born October 12, 1949 in New York City ) is an American writer and screenwriter. He also works as an actor in small roles and has co-produced several films.
Live and act
Price grew up as a child of a middle-class Jewish family in a council estate in the Bronx , studied at Cornell University , and later at Columbia University New York. In 1974 he published his first novel, The Wanderers , and has since followed seven more. Price was hailed from the start for his realistic dialogues, so Hollywood caught his eye early on, where he has been writing screenplays on a regular basis since 1986, mainly for thrillers and realistic police films and television series. His stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times , Esquire Magazine , New Yorker , the Village Voice and Rolling Stone .
He lives with his family in New York.
Awards
- 1987 Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay for The Color of Money
- 1995 Academy Award nomination (with Spike Lee ) for Best Adapted Screenplay for Clockers
- 1999 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature
- 2009 member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- 2011 Crime of the Year 2010 (2nd place) in the KrimiWelt best list for Cash
- 2016 German Crime Prize (1st place, international) for The Inaccessible
Works
Novels
- 1974 The Wanderers .
- Kai Molvig: Sharp times. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1976, ISBN 3-498-05229-2 .
- 1976 Bloodbrothers.
- 1978 Ladies Man.
- 1992 Clockers.
- Peter Torberg : Sons of the Night. Bertelsmann, Munich 1992. ISBN 3-570-01787-7 .
- Peter Torberg: Clockers. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-10-060828-4 .
- 1998 Freedomland.
- Malte Krutzsch: The face of truth. Goldmann, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-442-30832-1 .
- 2003 Samaritan.
- 2008 Lush Life.
- Miriam Mandelkow: Cash. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-10-060810-9 .
- 2015 The Whites. (under the author's name Harry Brandt )
- 2015 Miriam Mandelkow: The inviolable. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2015. ISBN 978-3100024169
Scripts
- 1986: The Color of Money (The Color of Money)
- 1986: Streets of Gold (with Heywood Gould and Tom Cole; directed by Joe Roth )
- 1987: Michael Jackson - Bad (short film)
- 1989: New York Stories (New York Stories)
- 1989: Sea of Love - Melody of Death (Sea of Love)
- 1992: Night and the City
- 1993: His name is Mad Dog (Mad Dog and Glory)
- 1995: Kiss of Death
- 1995: Clockers (with Spike Lee; director: Spike Lee)
- 1996: Bounty (Ransomware)
- 2000: Shaft - Any questions? (Shaft)
- 2006: The Face of Truth (Freedomland)
- between 2004 and 2008 for 5 episodes of the television series The Wire : Took (2008); Corner Boys (2006); Home Rooms (2006); Moral Midgetry (2004); All Due Respect (2004)
- 2012: NYC 22 (TV series)
- 2015: Kind 44 (Child 44)
- 2016: The Night Of (Miniseries)
- 2017-2018: The Deuce (TV series)
- 2020: The Outsider (TV series)
Film adaptations
- 1979: The Wanderers , directed by Philip Kaufman
- 1995: Clockers, directed by Spike Lee
- 2006: The Face of Truth
Web links
- Literature by and about Richard Price in the catalog of the German National Library
- Richard Price in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Portrait in THE NEW YORKER, April 7, 2008 (English)
- Video: Richard Price Talks with David Simon About His New Novel The Whites, YouTube (accessed January 8, 2019)
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- ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 19, 2019 .
- ↑ spiegel.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Price, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American novelist and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 12, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City , USA |