Rand Richards Cooper

Rand Richards Cooper is the author of two works of fiction, The Last to Go and Big As Life. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, GQ, Esquire, The Atlantic, and in Best American Short Stories. He has been Writer-in-Residence at Amherst and Emerson colleges. A longtime contributor to Bon Appétit and the New York Times, Rand lives in Hartford, CT with his family. He is the restaurant critic for the Hartford Courant and has been a critic and essayist for Commonweal for over two decades. The Last to Go was produced for television by ABC.

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Help Select 9th Annual Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award Winner

WHAT The Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award (MTAVL) is an annual national literary award sponsored generously by novelist David Baldacci and administered by the Mark Twain House and Museum. Honoring excellence in a work of fiction that tells a distinctly American story, the award helps maintain the legacy…

Rand Richards CooperJanuary 29, 2025

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Meet Jennifer Haigh, Winner of 2023 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award

This is the first in a series of interviews with previous winners of the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature award, for which BookTrib is a proud partner. First presented in 2016, this award honors a work of fiction from the previous calendar year that speaks with an “American Voice”…

Rand Richards CooperJuly 1, 2024