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He lived with his wife and three sons in rural Massachusetts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=37630&view=full_sptlght|title=Christopher Tilghman|work=randomhouse.com|accessdate=19 March 2015}}</ref>
He lived with his wife and three sons in rural Massachusetts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=37630&view=full_sptlght|title=Christopher Tilghman|work=randomhouse.com|accessdate=19 March 2015}}</ref>


He teaches at [[University of Virginia]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.engl.virginia.edu/faculty/tilghman_christopher.shtml|title=Faculty|work=virginia.edu|accessdate=19 March 2015}}</ref>
He teaches at the [[University of Virginia]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.engl.virginia.edu/faculty/tilghman_christopher.shtml|title=Faculty|work=virginia.edu|accessdate=19 March 2015}}</ref>
and the Napa Writers' Conference.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.napawritersconf.org/faculty/faculty-2007|title=Faculty (2007)|work=napawritersconf.org|accessdate=19 March 2015}}</ref>
and the Napa Writers' Conference.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.napawritersconf.org/faculty/faculty-2007|title=Faculty (2007)|work=napawritersconf.org|accessdate=19 March 2015}}</ref>


==Awards==
==Awards==
* 1990 [[Whiting Awards|Whiting Award]]
* 1990 [[Whiting Awards|Whiting Award]]
* 1993-1994 [[Guggenheim Fellowship]] <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/14699-christopher-tilghman|title=Christopher Tilghman|work=gf.org|accessdate=19 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402093643/http://www.gf.org/fellows/14699-christopher-tilghman|archive-date=2 April 2015|dead-url=yes}}</ref>
* 1993-1994 [[Guggenheim Fellowship]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/14699-christopher-tilghman|title=Christopher Tilghman|work=gf.org|accessdate=19 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402093643/http://www.gf.org/fellows/14699-christopher-tilghman|archive-date=2 April 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Ingram Merrill Foundation]] Award
* [[Ingram Merrill Foundation]] Award


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* {{cite book | title=Mason's Retreat | publisher=Random House | year=1996 | isbn=978-0-679-42712-4 | url=https://archive.org/details/masonsretreat00tilg }}
* {{cite book | title=Mason's Retreat | publisher=Random House | year=1996 | isbn=978-0-679-42712-4 | url=https://archive.org/details/masonsretreat00tilg }}
* {{cite book| title=The Way People Run: Stories| publisher=Random House| year= 1999| isbn=978-0-679-44971-3 }}
* {{cite book| title=The Way People Run: Stories| publisher=Random House| year= 1999| isbn=978-0-679-44971-3 }}
* {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1R23mjLdaUIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:Christopher+inauthor:Tilghman&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false| title=Roads of the Heart| publisher=Random House, Inc.| year= 2005| isbn= 978-0-8129-7431-7 }}
* {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1R23mjLdaUIC| title=Roads of the Heart| publisher=Random House, Inc.| year= 2005| isbn= 978-0-8129-7431-7 }}
* {{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/righthandshore00tilg| title=The Right-Hand Shore| publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux| year=2012| isbn=978-0-374-20348-1}}
* {{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/righthandshore00tilg| title=The Right-Hand Shore| publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux| year=2012| isbn=978-0-374-20348-1}}
*''Thomas and Beal in the Midi''. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. {{ISBN|978-0-374-27652-2}}.
*''Thomas and Beal in the Midi''. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. {{ISBN|978-0-374-27652-2}}.
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[[Category:University of Virginia faculty]]
[[Category:University of Virginia faculty]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Guggenheim Fellows]]
[[Category:American male short story writers]]
[[Category:American male short story writers]]
[[Category:20th-century American short story writers]]
[[Category:20th-century American short story writers]]

Latest revision as of 02:04, 14 September 2023

Christopher Tilghman
NationalityAmerican
Alma materYale University
Notable awardsWhiting Award

Christopher Tilghman is an American novelist and short story writer.

Life

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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

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Works

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Books

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  • 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

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  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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