Christopher Tilghman

Christopher Tilghman is an American novelist and short story writer.

Christopher Tilghman
NationalityAmerican
Alma materYale University
Notable awardsWhiting Award

Life

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 University of Virginia[3] and the Napa Writers' Conference.[4]

Awards

Works

Books
  • 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
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References
  1. "Read By Author". pshares.org. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
  2. "Christopher Tilghman". randomhouse.com. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
  3. "Faculty". virginia.edu. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
  4. "Faculty (2007)". napawritersconf.org. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
  5. "Christopher Tilghman". gf.org. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
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