
Ron Hansen
Author · 15 books
Ron Hansen is the author of two story collections, two volumes of essays, and nine novels, including most recently The Kid, as well as The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, which was made into an Oscar-nominated film. His novel Atticus was a finalist for the National Book Award. He teaches at Santa Clara University.
Books

Desperadoes
1979

A Stay Against Confusion
Essays on Faith and Fiction
2001

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
1983

She Loves Me Not
New and Selected Stories
2012

Nebraska
Stories
1988

Atticus
1996

The Kid
2016

A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion
A Novel
2011

You Don't Know What Love Is
Contemporary American Stories
1987

Exiles
2008

Isn't It Romantic?
An Entertainment
2003

The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction
Fifty North American Stories Since 1970
1999

Hitler's Niece
1999

Wickedness
2023

Mariette in Ecstasy
1991