MR. RICHARD GOODMAN

Visiting Assistant Professor

M.F.A., Spalding University, 2009

Richard Goodman grew up in Virginia and Michigan.  He lived in New York City for thirty years, observing that city as it went through more changes than Kafka’s beetle.  In New York, he taught at Queens College and at Pace University.  He also spent a year as an Associate Editor in the Reference Department at Random House, which should, under all the rules of fiction, make an ideal backdrop for a comic novel.  That might only be outdone by the three years he worked as a landscape gardener in Manhattan allowing him access to many of the penthouses and brownstones he had theretofore only gazed at longingly.  He has also taught creative nonfiction for the last nine years at Spalding University’s low residency MFA in writing program in Louisville, Kentucky.

Richard Goodman is the author of French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France.  The San Francisco Chronicle called French Dirt “one of the most charming, perceptive and subtle books ever written about the French by an American.”  He is also the author of The Soul of Creative Writing and A New York Memoir.

Richard’s most recent book, The Bicycle Diaries: One New Yorker’s Journey Through 9-11, was published in a fine press, limited edition form, with original color wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec.  The New York Times said that “it has the weight of a small thing done with great care to honor a huge loss.”

Richard has also written articles and essays for Harvard Review, The New York Times, Creative Nonfiction, Ascent, Commonweal, Michigan Quarterly Review, Vanity Fair, French Review, River Teeth and The Writer’s Chronicle.

Phone Number:
(504) 280-7135

Email Mr. Goodman@
rgoodman@uno.edu

Address:
Liberal Arts Building 273

Office Hours:

MTW 2-4pm