Winner in 2002 of Pulitzer Prize for fiction, for novel "Empire Falls".
Pulitzer-winning "Empire Falls" novel optioned for film by HBO. Robert
Benton set to direct, with Paul Newman producing/starring just as they
did in making film of Russo's story "Nobody's Fool".
As of 2005, three of his film projects have starred Paul Newman:
Nobody's Fool (1994), (Twilight (1998), and "Empire Falls" (2005).
Russo appears as a character in the book She's Not There: A Life in Two
Genders, the memoir of his close friend and fellow Colby College
professor Jennifer Finney Boylan. Russo also wrote the afterword for
the book.