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 and The Bicycle Diaries: One New Yorker's Journey Through 9-11. He's written for The New York Times, Harvard Review, Creative Nonfiction, Vanity Fair, Saveur, River Teeth, North American Review and Hippocampus. He co-edited The Gulf South: An Anthology of Environmental Writing. For many years, he taught creative writing at the University of New Orleans. He writes about living in rural Louisiana in a newsletter.
His book, A New York Memoir, will be published by Open Road Media in the fall of 2026.
Join Richard Goodman September 27-October 2, 2026 for an inspiring memoir writing workshop in the South of France!