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Richard Lange (born October 19, 1961 in Oakland, California) is an American writer. After receiving his bachelor's degree from the University of Southern California film school, 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 has published short stories in various literary journals. "Bank of America" was selected for Best American Mystery Stories of 2004. His first book, a collection of stories titled Dead Boys, was published by Little, Brown in August 2007. Einaudi published the Italian translation, Come Morti, and Albin Michel put out the book in France. Lange's second book, a novel, This Wicked World, came out in June 2009 in the U.S. and will also be published in France and Italy.

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.

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