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Name
  
Christopher Tilghman

Role
  
Novelist

Education
  
Yale University (1968)


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Awards
  
Whiting Awards, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada

Books
  
The Right‑Hand Shore: A, Mason's Retreat, In a father's place, Roads of the Heart, The way people run

Christopher Tilghman is an American novelist and short story writer.

Contents

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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

    • 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. 

    • Stories

  • "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

    Christopher Tilghman Wikipedia
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