Anecdotes

Two daughters: Emily, Kate.

Winner in 2002 of Pulitzer Prize for fiction, for novel "Empire Falls".

Pulitzer-winning "Empire Falls" novel optioned for film by HBO. Robert Benton set to direct, with Paul Newman producing/starring just as they did in making film of Russo's story "Nobody's Fool".

As of 2005, three of his film projects have starred Paul Newman: Nobody's Fool (1994), (Twilight (1998), and "Empire Falls" (2005).

Russo appears as a character in the book She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, the memoir of his close friend and fellow Colby College professor Jennifer Finney Boylan. Russo also wrote the afterword for the book.

As of Empire Falls (2005) (TV), 3 of Russo's 7 produced scripts have been made with Paul Newman as a star.

Educated at University of Arizona, with B.A., then Ph.D, 1980 and M.F.A 1981.

Teaches Creative Writing at Colby College in Waterville, Maine