Robert RicheRobert Riche has been a newspaper reporter, a United Press staff correspondent in New York, and later, a freelance correspondent out of Paris. He has been a staff organizer for the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers Union. As a freelance wrier he has written travel and food feature articles for the New York Times, Washington Post, Town & Country, Forbes FYI, Robb Report, and Italian Food & Wine. He is the author of three novels, many plays, and several books of poetry. He is a recipient of a NEA grant, Connecticut Foundation for the Arts grant, Advanced Drama Research Grant, and winner of the Stanley Drama Award. His plays have been produced in many areas of the United States and at the Bristol Old Vic, England. He is a Norman Mailer Writers Colony scholar and a Breadloaf Writers' Conference scholar. Riche has been married to painter Fran Riche for forty-nine years. His son is a sculptor working out of San Francisco. His daughter is a painter whose work appears on the covers of several of his books. Riche holds to the view that all children are created equal, and should be given equal opportunities in life. He lives in Connecticut, and spends part of each summer in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Read More Read Less