Elizabeth Tallent Explained

Elizabeth Tallent
Birth Name:Elizabeth Ann Tallent
Birth Date:8 August 1954
Birth Place:Washington, D.C., U.S.
Workplaces:Stanford University Department of English

Elizabeth Tallent (born Elizabeth Ann Tallent; August 8, 1954 in Washington, D.C.) is an American fiction writer, academic, and essayist.

Life

Tallent's short stories and essays have been published in literary magazines and journals such as The New Yorker, Esquire, Harper's Magazine, The Threepenny Review,[1] Tin House, Zyzzyva, and North American Review, and her work has been reprinted in the O. Henry Prize Stories,[2] Best American Short Stories, The Best American Essays, and Pushcart Prize collections.[3] [4]

Her memoir Scratched was released in 2020 from Harper. Mendocino Fire, her first collection of short stories in more than 20 years, was published in October 2015.[5] The New York Times Book Review praised Tallent's "ability to create characters who force us to withhold judgment and leave us gasping at their absolute, solid reality."[6] Publishers Weekly called the volume "a smart, thought-provoking study of desire and disappointment." [7] Tin House described it as "driving, furious, erotic, gilded, the sentences flying at you like arrows."[8] The collection is a finalist for the 2016 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.[9]

Tallent has taught literature and creative writing at the University of California, Irvine, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the University of California, Davis. She has been a faculty member at Stanford University since 1994, teaching both undergraduates and fellows in the Stegner Fellowship program. In 2007 she was awarded Stanford's Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award, and in 2008 she received the Northern California Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa's Excellence in Teaching Award, recognizing "the extraordinary gifts, diligence, and amplitude of spirit that mark the best in teaching." In 2009 she was honored with Stanford's Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching.[10]

In 2014, Tallent was the lead drafter of a letter—signed by 369 of her colleagues at Stanford—requesting that the University divest from fossil fuels.[11]

She lives in Mendocino, California with her wife.[8]

Her son Gabriel is the author of the novel My Absolute Darling (Riverhead, 2017).[12]

Works

Novels

Short story collections

Memoir

Literary criticism

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Elizabeth Tallent in Threepenny.
  2. Web site: The O. Henry Prize Stories.
  3. Web site: Bio Elizabeth Tallent . elizabethtallent.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151021202948/http://elizabethtallent.com/bio/ . 2015-10-21.
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20151117091904/http://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1293&context=ijls Iowa Research Online
  5. Web site: 'Mendocino Fire: Stories,' by Elizabeth Tallent. 22 October 2015.
  6. News: Elizabeth Tallent's 'Mendocino Fire'. The New York Times. 13 November 2015. Martin. Valerie.
  7. Web site: Fiction Book Review: Mendocino Fire by Elizabeth Tallent. Harper, $24.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-241034-4. October 2015 .
  8. Web site: Tumult's Instruments: An Interview with Elizabeth Tallent Tin House . www.tinhouse.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151117152820/http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/41256/tumults-instruments-an-interview-with-elizabeth-tallent.html . 2015-11-17.
  9. Web site: Congratulations, 2016 PEN/Faulkner Award Finalists!. www.penfaulkner.org. 27 March 2016.
  10. Web site: Elizabeth Tallent | Department of English.
  11. Web site: Faculty meet with Hennessy to discuss divestment from fossil fuels. 18 February 2015.
  12. Web site: 2017-08-24. My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent review – a remarkable debut. 2020-11-07. the Guardian. en.
  13. News: Kakutani. Michiko. 1985-03-30. Books of The Times; Geometry of Emotions (Published 1985). en-US. The New York Times. 2020-11-07. 0362-4331.
  14. News: Broyard. Anatole. 1983-04-29. BOOKS OF THE TIMES (Published 1983). en-US. The New York Times. 2020-11-07. 0362-4331.
  15. News: Kakutani. Michiko. 1987-10-14. BOOKS OF THE TIMES (Published 1987). en-US. The New York Times. 2020-11-07. 0362-4331.
  16. Web site: September 1988. Honey - Publishers Weekly. 2020-11-07. www.publishersweekly.com.
  17. Web site: Mendocino Fire. 2020-11-07. HarperCollins. en.
  18. Web site: Scratched. 2020-11-07. HarperCollins. en.
  19. Book: Married Men and Magic Tricks: John Updike's Erotic Heroes by Elizabeth Tallent. 2020-11-07. www.amazon.com. January 1656. Creative Arts Book Co.

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