Richard Price

Born 1949 · American novelist and screenwriter

Richard Price is an American novelist and screenwriter, known for the books The Wanderers (1974), Clockers (1992) and Lush Life (2008). Price's novels explore late-20th-century urban America in a gritty, realistic manner that has brought him considerable literary acclaim. Several of his novels are set in a fictional northern New Jersey city called Dempsy.

Richard Price, in order

1. 1986 Streets of Gold: wrote · directed by Joe Roth
2. 1986 The Color of Money: wrote, acted · directed by Martin Scorsese · critics 86%, audiences 74%
3. 1989 New York Stories: wrote, acted · directed by Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese · critics 76%, audiences 56% · streaming on Hoopla
4. 1989 Sea of Love: wrote · directed by Harold Becker · critics 76%, audiences 67% · streaming on Prime Video
5. 1992 Night and the City: wrote · directed by Irwin Winkler
6. 1993 Mad Dog and Glory: wrote · directed by John McNaughton · critics 80%, audiences 45%
7. 1995 Clockers: wrote · directed by Spike Lee · critics 75%, audiences 74%
8. 1995 Kiss of Death: wrote · directed by Barbet Schroeder · critics 66%, audiences 38%
9. 1996 Ransom: wrote · directed by Ron Howard · critics 72%, audiences 63%
10. 2000 Shaft: wrote · directed by John Singleton
11. 2004–08 The Wire (TV series): wrote · critics 94%, audiences 96% · streaming on HBO Max
12. 2006 Freedomland: wrote · directed by Joe Roth
13. 2012 Bad 25: acted · directed by Spike Lee · critics 92%, audiences 88%
14. 2012 NYC 22 (TV series): created
15. 2015 Child 44: wrote · directed by Daniel Espinosa · critics 30%, audiences 42% · streaming on Roku Channel, Kanopy, Hoopla
16. 2020 The Outsider (TV series): wrote · directed by Jason Bateman