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Richard: A Novel Richard: A Novel Richard: A Novel is a book by English author and journalist Ben Myers about musician Richey Edwards. Edwards, who suffered from depression, alcoholism, anorexia and self-harm – disappeared on 1 February 1995 at the age of 27 and was declared officially presumed dead on 23 November 2008. "Richard" was published by Picador and was released on 1 October 2010. On his blog on 28 May 2010, Myers noted that Picador ran a Twitter-based competition to win an advance bound proof copy of "Richard", and that an advance bound proof copy of the novel had been put up