Just exactly what that good life was--the one I expected--I cannot tell you now exactly, though I wouldn't say it has not come to pass, only that much has come in between.

In the same year Ford was chosen as winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story for outstanding achievement in that genre. Having enrolled to study hotel management he switched to English.

Richard Ford (born February 16 1944) is an American novelist and short story writer.