, Berlin 2002 Ford lived for many years in
New Orleans in the
French Quarter, on lower
Bourbon Street then in the
Garden District of the same city, where his wife, Kristina, was the executive director of the city planning commission. For a while Ford and his wife resided in
East Boothbay, Maine. As of 2023, Ford lives in
Billings, Montana where he bought a house. During the intervening years, Ford lived in other locations, usually in the United States, as he pursued a
peripatetic teaching career. He obtained a teaching appointment at
Bowdoin College during 2005 but kept the job for only one semester. During 2008 Ford was an adjunct professor of the
Oscar Wilde Centre with the School of English at
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, teaching in the Masters programme in creative writing. Starting December 29, 2010, Ford assumed the job of senior fiction professor at the
University of Mississippi during the autumn of 2011, replacing
Barry Hannah, who died during March 2010. During the autumn of 2012, he became the Emmanuel Roman and Barrie Sardoff Roman Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Writing at the
Columbia University School of the Arts. As the new century commenced, he published another story collection,
A Multitude of Sins (2002), followed by the novels
The Lay Of The Land, —the third in his Bascombe series— in 2006 and
Canada, published during May 2012. According to Ford,
The Lay Of The Land completed his series of Bascombe novels but
Canada was a stand-alone novel. In April 2013, Ford read from a new Frank Bascombe story without revealing to the audience whether it was part of a longer work. By 2014, it was confirmed that the story was to appear in the book
Let Me Be Frank With You, published during November of that year. The latter work consists of four interconnected novellas (or "long stories"), all narrated by Frank Bascombe.
Let Me Be Frank With You was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. It did not win the prize but the selection committee praised the book for its "unflinching series of narratives, set in the aftermath of
Hurricane Sandy, insightfully portraying a society in decline." As in the preceding decade, Ford continued to assist with various editing projects. During 2007, he edited the
New Granta Book of the American Short Story and in 2011 he edited
Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar: Stories of Work. During May 2017, Ford published a memoir,
Between Them: Remembering My Parents. In 2018,
Wildlife was adapted into a
film of the same name by director
Paul Dano and screenwriter
Zoe Kazan. It was released to widespread critical acclaim. In 2020, Ford's short story collection,
Sorry For Your Trouble, was published. His novel,
Be Mine, was published in June 2023 and is the fifth —and presumably final— book in Ford's so-called "Bascombe series." ==Reception==