Richard Russo

In 2003, Skowhegan was a major filming location for an HBO movie based on the 2001 Pulitzer Prize winning novel Empire Falls, by Maine author Richard Russo.

Russo

Russo is the author of numerous novels and short story collections, including Empire Falls, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2002.

because a good book ’s well-written, but genius (read: Margaret Atwood) that a good book made me feel like giving up not so incredibly

Empire Falls by Richard Russo was a good book for me to read, because a good book ’s well-written, but not so incredibly genius (read: Margaret Atwood) that a good book made me feel like giving up.

Richard Anthony Russo

Empire Falls is not the same author as either Richard Anthony Russo [co-editor of the Yellow Silk anthologies with Lily Pond, and editor of Dreams Are Wiser Than Men] or the science fiction writer, Richard Paul Russo [

Brooklyn-born author Joseph Heller

In 2001 Brooklyn-born author Joseph Heller published Empire Falls, which won the Pulitzer Prize a year later.

Marah Ellis Ryan

, Empire Falls Marah Ellis Ryan (1860–1934), Told in the Hills S Seth Grahame-Smith (born 1976)

Richard North Patterson

Richard North Patterson received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which along with Nobody’s Fool was adapted to film.

Bill Roorbach

Bill Roorbach's novel Empire Falls won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was adapted into an HBO mini- series.

written since 2002 by the American author Walter Jon Williams

Dread Empire's Fall is a space opera novel series, written since 2002 by the American author Walter Jon Williams.

Sally Gunning

Sally Gunning also wrote Empire Falls, this is one of my triple threats : artist, Italy and a great read.

Leroy Ninker's most intimate novel yet: ' An astute portrait of a 30-year marriage, in all all its promise's promise and pain…

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls delivers Leroy Ninker's most intimate novel yet: 'An astute portrait of a 30-year marriage, in all all its promise's promise and pain….

Mary-Kim Arnold

Mary-Kim Arnold writes (Empire Falls, Wigleaf), and the only thing I’m sure of is that I want more.

long-time The Incredible Hulk writer Peter David

The story, set in the same world as Orson Scott Card novel Empire, was penned by long-time The Incredible Hulk writer Peter David.

Straight Man's best

Straight Man is Straight Man's funniest novel, but Empire Falls is Straight Man's best.

by Anna Neye, who also stars in the film’s lead role

Conceived and written by Anna Neye, who also stars in the film’s lead role, Empire is set in the Danish West Indies in 1848 and is a story about power and human interdependence that aims to challenge Denmark’s historical amnesia with a mix of earnest drama and absurd comedy.

Michael Hardt

Michael Hardt is a political philosopher best known as co-author, with Antonio Negri, of the influential trilogy Empire (Harvard, 2000),

by Lawrence Kasdan (Raiders of the Lost Ark)

Written by Lawrence Kasdan (Raiders of the Lost Ark), Empire remains the richest and strongest entry in the Star Wars Saga.

Robert Bickers

Robert Bickers is the author of the highly-acclaimed Empire

Helen Tiffin

Before Professor Ashcroft published Empire (in collaboration with fellow academics Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin)

Terence Winter

Boardwalk Empire creator Terence Winter penned the screenplay.