Christopher Tilghman is an American
novelist and
short story writer.
Life
He graduated from
Yale University. He served three 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''.
He lived with his wife and three sons in rural Massachusetts.
He teaches at the
University of Virginia
and the Napa Writers' Conference.
Awards
* 1990
Whiting Award
The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays. The award is sponsored by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation
Mrs. (American English) or Mrs (British English; standard E ...
* 1993-1994
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...
*
Ingram Merrill Foundation Award
Works
Books
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*''Thomas and Beal in the Midi''. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. .
Stories
"Norfolk, 1969", ''Virginia Quarterly Review'', Spring 1986 "On the Rivershore", ''Virginia Quarterly Review'', Spring 1989 "Aerial Bombardment", ''Virginia Quarterly Review'', "Writers on Writers," 2006
References
External links
Profile at The Whiting Foundation
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20th-century American novelists
21st-century American novelists
American male novelists
Yale University alumni
University of Virginia faculty
Living people
American male short story writers
20th-century American short story writers
21st-century American short story writers
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American male writers
Novelists from Virginia
Year of birth missing (living people)