James (Tad) Richards (born March 31, 1940) is an American writer and visual artist.
[1] He attended Bard College (where Fite was on the faculty) before earning a Master of Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
[3] His first non-pseudonymous novel, Cherokee Bill (a collaboration with his brother Jonathan Richards), was published by Dell Books in 1974.
[4] Nick and Jake has also been produced as an audio play starring Alan Arkin, Tom Conti and Ali MacGraw.
He has also written extensively on music and poetry; additionally, several of his songs have been recorded by Orleans, the John Hall Band, and Fred Koller.