Lily Tuck

Lily Tuck

Lily Tuck (born 1939) is an American novelist and short story writer whose novel "The News from Paraguay" won the 2004 National Book Award. Her novel "Siam" was nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.]

Works

Novels
*"The News From Paraguay." New York: Harper Collins, 2004. ISBN 978-0066209449
*"Siam, or the Woman Who Shot a Man." New York: Overlook Press, 1999. ISBN 978-0879517236
*"The Woman Who Walked on Water". New York: Riverhead Books, 1996. ISBN 978-1573225830
*"Interviewing Matisse or the Woman Who Died Standing Up." New York: Knopf, 1991. ISBN 978-0394589350

Short Stories
*"Limbo, or Other Places I Have Lived." New York: Harper Perennial, 2002. ISBN 978-0060934859

Biography
* "Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante." New York: Harper Collins, 2008. ISBN 978-0061472565

External Links

* [http://contemporarylit.about.com/od/firstchapters/a/paraguayExcerpt.htm Chapter One of "The News from Paraguay"] .
* [http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v1n1/fiction/tuck_l/house.htm "Dream House," a short story by Lily Tuck] .
* [http://www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm?author_number=1079 Author Bio, Photo, and National Book Award Acceptance Speech] .
* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4169803 National Public Radio "All Things Considered" interview with Tuck (audio file)] .
* [http://www.charlierose.com/guests/lily-tuck Charlie Rose interview with Lily Tuck and 2004 National Book Award Finalists (video file)] .

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