The winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Empire Falls is a novel written by American author Richard Russo. It was published in 2001, making it one of Russo's earlier works.

Empire Falls is primarily about a man named Miles Roby and his...

Richard Russo's Straight Man (1997) is a novel about William Henry Devereaux, Jr.'s (also called "Hank") mid-life crisis. Russo's novel is set in a fictional town in Pennsylvania and follows the aforementioned Hank, the misanthropic chairman of...