Richard Bruce Snodgrass (born April 22, 1940) is an American writer and photographer known for his evocations of life in small-town and rural western Pennsylvania.
[1] Barbara’s death, at the age of twenty-seven, from a coronary thrombosis aggravated by a chronic asthma-like condition is the subject of a series of poems by W. D.
The orange-brick house with distinctive rounded corners and curved windows is the subject of a collection of photographs Snodgrass took in the 1970s.
[citation needed] Snodgrass subsequently studied with and assisted the renowned photographer Oliver Gagliani at his workshops in Virginia City, Nevada.
[8] In 2011, Carnegie Mellon University Press published An Uncommon Field: The Flight 93 Temporary Memorial, a collection of photographs and meditations about the now-dismantled structure on the site that later became a national park in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Snodgrass’s series of novels and short stories, the Books of Furnass, set in a fictional mill town near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, were published between 2018 and 2022 by Calling Crow Press.
In 2022, Carnegie Mellon University Press published Snodgrass’ memoir, The House with Round Windows, about his brother, the poet W.D.