Ian McGuire

Ian McGuire (Grad ’96) has published Richard Ford and the Ends of Realism (University of Iowa Press), which examines the work of American novelist and short story writer Richard Ford. He argues that Ford’s work is best understood as a form of pragmatic realism and that Ford is part of a deeply rooted and ongoing American debate about the nature of realism and pragmatism. Mr. McGuire is the co-director of the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester. He writes both fiction and literary criticism and has published essays and short stories in the Paris Review, the Chicago Review and other publications. He lives in Manchester, England, with his wife and two daughters.