Christopher Tilghman
Christopher Tilghman | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
| Notable awards | Whiting Award |
Christopher Tilghman is an American novelist and short story writer.
Life
[edit]He graduated from Yale University. He served three years in the Navy. He worked at a sawmill in New Hampshire, moved back to Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a corporate copywriter and journalist. He edited Ploughshares.[1] He lived with his wife and three sons in rural Massachusetts.[2]
He teaches at the University of Virginia[3] and the Napa Writers' Conference.[4]
Awards
[edit]- 1990 Whiting Award
- 1993-1994 Guggenheim Fellowship[5]
- Ingram Merrill Foundation Award
Works
[edit]Books
[edit]- In a Father's Place: Stories. HarperPerennial. ISBN 978-0-06-097383-4. (reprint 1991)
- Mason's Retreat. Random House. 1996. ISBN 978-0-679-42712-4.
- The Way People Run: Stories. Random House. 1999. ISBN 978-0-679-44971-3.
- Roads of the Heart. Random House, Inc. 2005. ISBN 978-0-8129-7431-7.
- The Right-Hand Shore. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2012. ISBN 978-0-374-20348-1.
- Thomas and Beal in the Midi. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. ISBN 978-0-374-27652-2.
Stories
[edit]- "Norfolk, 1969", Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 1986
- "On the Rivershore", Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 1989
- "Aerial Bombardment", Virginia Quarterly Review, "Writers on Writers," 2006
References
[edit]- ^ "Read By Author". pshares.org. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
- ^ "Christopher Tilghman". randomhouse.com. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
- ^ "Faculty". virginia.edu. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
- ^ "Faculty (2007)". napawritersconf.org. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
- ^ "Christopher Tilghman". gf.org. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
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Categories:
- 20th-century American novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- American male novelists
- Yale University alumni
- University of Virginia faculty
- Living people
- American male short story writers
- 20th-century American short story writers
- 21st-century American short story writers
- 20th-century American male writers
- 21st-century American male writers
- Novelists from Virginia