Richard Goodman is the author of French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France. His other books are The Soul of Creative Writing, A New York Memoir and The Bicycle Diaries: One New Yorker's Journey Through 9-11. He has written for The New York Times, Harvard Review, Creative Nonfiction, Vanity Fair, Ascent, Saveur, River Teeth, North American Review, Hippocampus and the Michigan Quarterly Review. He co-edited The Gulf South: An Anthology of Environmental Writing. He writes about living in rural Louisiana in a newsletter. Currently, Richard is working on a book about aging.
Richard will teach a workshop in writing memoir this July in the coastal town of Rockport, ME. He would be pleased and honored if you joined him.