Richard Lange is an American writer born in Oakland, CA. After receiving a degree in film from the University of Southern California, he traveled to Europe and taught English for Berlitz in Barcelona, Spain. Returning to Los Angeles, he was hired as a copy editor at Larry Flynt Publications and eventually became managing editor of RIP, a heavy-metal music magazine. He later edited textbooks before becoming managing editor of Radio & Records, a radio-industry trade magazine. Lange is the author of the novels Angel Baby, which won the 2013 Hammett Prize, and This Wicked World and the short story collection Dead Boys. A new collection, Sweet Nothing, will be out in February 2015. He has published short stories in various literary journals. "Bank of America" was selected for Best American Mystery Stories of 2004 and "Baby Killer" for Best American Mystery Stories of 2011. Lange was the 2008 recipient of the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a finalist for the 2008 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009. 

January 1st, 1961 in Oakland (Age 63)