Christopher Tilghman Explained

Christopher Tilghman
Nationality:	American
Alma Mater:	Yale University
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Awards:	Whiting Award

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.^[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

• 1990 Whiting Award
• 1993-1994 Guggenheim Fellowship^[5]
• Ingram Merrill Foundation Award

Works

Books

• Book: In a Father's Place: Stories. HarperPerennial . 978-0-06-097383-4 . (reprint 1991)
• Book: Mason's Retreat . Random House . 1996 . 978-0-679-42712-4 .
• Book: The Way People Run: Stories. Random House. 1999. 978-0-679-44971-3 .
• Book: Roads of the Heart. Random House, Inc.. 2005. 978-0-8129-7431-7 .
• Book: The Right-Hand Shore. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2012. 978-0-374-20348-1.
• Thomas and Beal in the Midi. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. .

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

External links

• Profile at The Whiting Foundation

Notes and References

1. Web site: Read By Author. pshares.org. 19 March 2015.
2. Web site: Christopher Tilghman. randomhouse.com. 19 March 2015.
3. Web site: Faculty. virginia.edu. 19 March 2015.
4. Web site: Faculty (2007). napawritersconf.org. 19 March 2015.
5. Web site: Christopher Tilghman. gf.org. 19 March 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402093643/http://www.gf.org/fellows/14699-christopher-tilghman. 2 April 2015. dead.