Tony Tulathimutte

Infobox Writer
name = Tony Tulathimutte


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birthplace = Springfield, Massachusetts
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nationality = United States
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influences = Philip Roth, Jonathan Franzen, David Foster Wallace, Martin Amis
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website = http://tonytula.com

Tony Tulathimutte (born September 1, 1983) is an American fiction writer. His short story "Scenes from the Life of the Only Girl in Water Shield, Alaska" received an O. Henry Award in 2008 [ [http://www.randomhouse.com/anchor/ohenry/winners/ The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008] ] . An earlier version of the story won the Bocock-Guerard Fiction Prize at Stanford University [ [http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2004/5/19/creativeWritingProgramAwardsPrizesInFictionAndPoetry/ Stanford Daily, "Creative Writing Program awards prizes in fiction and poetry."] ] , where Tulathimutte graduated in 2006 with bachelor's and master's degrees in Stanford's Symbolic Systems program. Raised in South Hadley, Massachusetts, he currently lives in San Francisco and works as a user experience researcher at [http://www.boltpeters.com/ Bolt Peters] [ [http://boltpeters.com/about/team.html Bolt Peters staff biographies] ] .

Works

;Fiction

* [http://www.randomhouse.com/anchor/ohenry/tulathimutte.html "Scenes from the Life of the Only Girl in Water Shield, Alaska" (corrected text)]

Awards

* [http://www.randomhouse.com/anchor/ohenry/winners/ O. Henry Award, 2008]
* [http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2005/5/20/writingPrizesAwarded/ Third Place, Bocock-Guerard Fiction Prize, 2005]
* [http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2004/5/19/creativeWritingProgramAwardsPrizesInFictionAndPoetry/ First Place, Bocock-Guerard Fiction Prize, 2004]

References

External links

* [http://tonytula.com/ tonytula.com (official website)]