- Tony Tulathimutte
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name = Tony Tulathimutte
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birthdate = Birth date and age|1983|09|01|df=yes
birthplace =Springfield ,Massachusetts
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influences =Philip Roth ,Jonathan Franzen ,David Foster Wallace ,Martin Amis
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website = http://tonytula.comTony 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 anO. 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 atStanford 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 inSouth Hadley, Massachusetts , he currently lives inSan 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)]
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