Richard Price (born October 12, 1949) is an American novelist and screenwriter, known for the books The Wanderers (1974), Clockers (1992) and Lush Life (2008).
Price's novels explore late-20th-century urban America in a gritty, realistic manner that has brought him considerable literary acclaim.
For writing The Color of Money (1986), a feature film directed by Martin Scorsese and based on the 1984 novel of the same name by Walter Tevis, Price received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
[1] A self-described "lower middle class Jewish kid", he grew up in a housing project in the northeast Bronx.
[4] In July 2010, a group art show inspired by Lush Life was held in nine galleries in New York City.
[6] Price has written numerous screenplays, including The Color of Money (1986) (for which he was nominated for an Oscar), Life Lessons (the Martin Scorsese segment of New York Stories) (1989), Sea of Love (1989), Mad Dog and Glory (1993), Ransom (1996), and Shaft (2000).
[citation needed] He has published articles in The New York Times, Esquire, The New Yorker, The Village Voice, Rolling Stone and others.