Christopher Tilghman

Christopher Tilghman is an American novelist, and short story writer.

Life

He graduated from Yale University. He served 3 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 University of Virginia,^[3] and the Napa Writers' Conference.^[4]

Awards

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

Works

• "Norfolk, 1969", Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 1986

• In a Father's Place. HarperPerennial. ISBN 9780060973834.  (reprint 1991)
• Mason's Retreat. Random House. 1996. ISBN 9780679427124. 
• The Way People Run: Stories. Random House. 1999. ISBN 9780679449713. 
• Roads of the Heart. Random House, Inc.. 2005. ISBN 9780812974317. http://books.google.com/books?id=1R23mjLdaUIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:Christopher+inauthor:Tilghman&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 

References

1. ^ http://www.pshares.org/Authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=1534
2. ^ http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=37630&view=full_sptlght
3. ^ http://www.engl.virginia.edu/faculty/tilghman_christopher.shtml
4. ^ http://www.napawritersconf.org/faculty/faculty-2007
5. ^ http://www.gf.org/fellows/14699-christopher-tilghman

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