Richard Lange

Richard Lange was born in Oakland, CA and grew up in California's San Joaquin Valley. His stories have appeared in The Sun, The Iowa Review, and Best American Mystery Stories, and as part of the Atlantic Monthly’s Fiction for Kindle series. He is the author of the collections Dead Boys and Sweet Nothing and the novels This Wicked World, Angel Baby, which won the Hammett Prize from the International Association of Crime Writers, The Smack, Rovers, and Joe Hustle (July ‘24). His story "Apocrypha," from Sweet Nothing, was awarded the Short Story Dagger by Great Britain's Crime Writers' Association. He received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow. He lives in Los Angeles. www.richlange.com, Facebook.com/Richard.lange, Twitter@richardlange, Instagram: @richlange