Richard Lange

Richard Lange was born in Oakland, CA, in 1961 and spent his childhood in various small towns in California's Central Valley. He attended film school at the University of Southern California, taught English in Barcelona and worked in magazine and book publishing. He was a copy editor for Larry Flynt Publications; managing editor of RIP, a heavy-metal music magazine; a text-book production editor; and managing editor of Radio & Records, a radio-industry trade magazine.

Lange published his first short story in 1994, in New Delta Review, and his story "Bank of America" was selected for inclusion in Best American Mystery Stories of 2004. His collection Dead Boys was published in the U.S. by Little, Brown in 2007, in Italy by Einaudi and in France by Albin Michel. His novel This Wicked World was published by Little, Brown in June 2009 and will also be published in Italy and France. 

Lange was the 2008 recipient of the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a finalist for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009.

For more information: www.richlange.com 

Bibliography 

Books
    Dead Boys: Stories/Little, Brown & Co., 2007

    This Wicked World/Little, Brown & Co., 2009

Stories
   "Loss Prevention"/ New Delta Review

   "Telephone Bird"/The Cream City Review

   "Love Lifted Me"/Cutbank

   "Culver City"/Story

   "The Bogo-Indian Defense"/The Southern Review

   "Everything Beautiful Is Far Away"/The Sun

   "Long Lost"/Mid-American Review

   "Fuzzyland"/The Georgia Review

   "Bank of America"/StoryQuarterly, Best American Mystery Stories 2004

   "Blind-Made Products"/The Iowa Review

    "Dead Boys"/Opium

    "Sweet Nothing"/Southern California Review

    "The 100-to-1 Club"/The Sun

    "Must Come Down"/Atlantic Fiction for Kindle Series

Awards
     2009 Guggenheim Fellow

     The 2008 Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
  
    Finalist for the 2008 Saroyan International Prize for Writing