<link href="css/hmh.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <meta content="urn:uuid:a7d391a7-f2ec-4cfc-822f-ded4f46522b9" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body> <h1 class="backtitle">About the Author</h1> <div style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;text-align:center;text-indent:0;width:50%;"><p style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;width:100%;"><img alt="[Image]" class="art" id="fig_authorphoto" src="images/authorphoto.jpg" style="width:100%;"/></p></div> <p class="timebreak"> <br/></p> <p class="left">R<span style="font-size: smaller">ICK</span> B<span style="font-size: smaller">ASS</span>’s fiction has received O. Henry Awards, numerous Pushcart Prizes, awards from the Texas Institute of Letters, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, among others. Most recently, his memoir <em>Why I Came West</em> was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award.</p> </body> </html>