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American writer
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Male
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(Boston)
The details
Biography
Introduction
Christopher Tilghman is an American novelist and short story writer.
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. He lived with his wife and three sons in rural Massachusetts.
He teaches at University of Virginia
and the Napa Writers' Conference.
Awards
- 1990 Whiting Award
- 1993-1994 Guggenheim Fellowship
- Ingram Merrill Foundation Award
- "Christopher Tilghman". gf.org. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
Works
Books
- In a Father's Place. 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.