In these ten exquisite stories, first published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1987 and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback, Richard Ford mines literary gold from the wind-scrubbed landscape of the American West—and from the guarded hopes and gnawing loneliness of the people who live there: a refugee from justice driving across Wyoming with his daughter and an unhappy girlfriend in a stolen, cranberry-colored Mercedes; a boy watching his family dissolve in a night of tragicomic violence; and two men and a woman swapping hard-luck stories in a frontier bar as they try to sweeten their luck. Rock Springs is a masterpiece of taut narration, cleanly chiseled prose, and empathy so generous that it feels like a kind of grace.

理查德•福特，美国当代重要作家。1944年出生于密西西比州杰克逊市。他在密歇根州立大学毕业后曾担任初中教师，后在华盛顿大学法学院读了一学期，即转学加州大学厄湾校区攻读创意写作硕士学位。福特有轻微的阅读障碍，但痴迷文学，创作了《体育记者》、《独立日》等五部长篇小说，《石泉城》、《多重罪恶》等三部短篇小说集。

理查德•福特曾为“美国文库”主编韦尔蒂作品选，为《格兰塔》杂志主编多部短篇小说选，在多所大学教授写作课程。

福特是美国艺术与文学院院士。曾获得普利策小说奖、美国笔会福克纳小说奖和马拉默德短篇小说奖、Rea短篇小说奖和法国文学艺术奖。作品已被翻译成近三十种文字。