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Novelist and screenwriter, Richard Price is known as the “Voice of the Bronx” because he illuminates the lives of the urban, post-industrial dispossessed. His most recent novel Freedomland, ambitiously confronted America's race problem and for it, Price received an Academy Award in Literature. He wrote the screenplays for Clockers, The Color of Money, and the new Shaft, among others, and his novels Bloodbrothers and The Wanderers have both been adapted for screenplays.