Rhodes, Richard (Lee)

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RHODES, Richard (Lee)

RHODES, Richard (Lee). American, b. 1937. Genres: Novels, History, Autobiography/Memoirs, Documentaries/Reportage. Career: Contributing Ed., Harper's Magazine, NYC, 1970-74. Guggenheim Fellow, 1974-75; National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, 1978-79; Ford Foundation Fellow, 1985; Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, 1991-94. Publications: NON- FICTION: The Inland Ground: An Evocation of the American Middle West, 1970; The Ozarks, 1974; Looking for America: A Writer's Odyssey, 1979; The Making of the Atomic Bomb, 1987 (National Book Award, 1987; National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-fiction, 1988; Pulitzer Prize, 1988); Farm: A Year in the Life of an American Farmer, 1989; A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood (autobiography), 1990; Making Love (autobiography), 1992; How to Write, 1995; Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, 1995; Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague, 1997; Visions of Technology (anthology), 1999; Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist, 1999; Masters of Death: The SSEinsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust, 2002. NOVELS: The Ungodly, 1973; Holy Secrets, 1978; The Last Safari, 1980; Sons of Earth, 1981. Address: c/o Janklow & Nesbit Associates, 445 Park Ave Fl 13, New York, NY 10022, U.S.A.