Lily Tuck (born October 10, 1938) is an American novelist and short story writer whose novel The News from Paraguay won the 2004 National Book Award for Fiction.[2] Her 2008 biography Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante won the Premio Elsa Morante.[3] Her novel Siam was nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.[4] She is a Guggenheim Fellow.[5]
Lily Tuck | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 10, 1938 Paris, France |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Radcliffe College (BA)[1] |
| Genre | short story, novel |
| Notable awards | National Book Award for Fiction |
She has published five other novels, two collections of short stories, as well as her biography of Italian novelist Elsa Morante.
Life
editAn American citizen born in Paris, Tuck now divides her time between New York City and Islesboro, Maine;[6] she has also lived in Thailand and (during her childhood) Uruguay and Peru.[7] Tuck has stated that "living in other countries has given me a different perspective as a writer. It has heightened my sense of dislocation and rootlessness. ... I think this feeling is reflected in my characters, most of them women whose lives are changed by either a physical displacement or a loss of some kind".[8]
In her 2011 novel, I Married You for Happiness, Tuck explored an unhappy marriage. She explained at the time of its publication that while the book was not autobiographical it had resonance with her first marriage. She stated "In the '60s, I was married to a strong, charismatic person and he took over my life completely". Her second marriage was happier and upon the loss of her second husband, Edward, her grief was such that she was unable to write fiction and instead wrote the biography Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante which won the Premio Elsa Morante.[9]
Works
editNovels
- Sisters. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017. ISBN 978-0802127112
- The Double Life of Liliane. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0-8021-2402-9
- I Married You For Happiness. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-8021-1991-9
- The News from Paraguay. New York: HarperCollins, 2004. ISBN 978-0-06-620944-9
- Siam, or the Woman Who Shot a Man. New York: Overlook Press, 1999. ISBN 978-0-87951-723-6
- The Woman Who Walked on Water. New York: Riverhead Books, 1996. ISBN 978-1-57322-583-0
- Interviewing Matisse or the Woman Who Died Standing Up. New York: Knopf, 1991. ISBN 978-0-394-58935-0
Short Stories
- Heathcliff Redux and Other Stories. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, Feb. 4, 2020. ISBN 978-0802147592
- The House at Belle Fontaine: Stories. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-80212-016-8
- Limbo, and Other Places I Have Lived. New York: Harper Perennial, 2002. ISBN 978-0-06-093485-9
Biography
- Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante. New York: HarperCollins, 2008. ISBN 978-0-06-147256-5
References
edit- ^ "Lily Tuck: An Inventory of Her Papers at the Harry Ransom Center".
- ^
"National Book Awards – 2004". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-27.
(With blurb linked to her name and essay by Harold Augenbraum from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.) - ^ "Lily Tuck: A Reflection on Marriage and Grief". Retrieved 2024-08-27.
- ^ "2004 National Book Award Winner: Fiction: Lily Tuck". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2008-08-19.
- ^ "LILY TUCK". gf.org.
- ^ "Main(e) Point Books to Open This Summer". the American Booksellers Association. 2018-05-08. Retrieved 2022-05-05.
- ^ Rohter, Larry (2005-02-17). "'Paraguay' author finally goes there, finding an uproar". New York Times. Retrieved 2008-08-19.
- ^ "An Interview with Lily Tuck". Book Browse. Retrieved 2008-08-19.
- ^ "Lily Tuck: A Reflection on Marriage and Grief". Retrieved 2024-08-27.
External links
edit- Chapter One of The News from Paraguay.
- "Dream House," a short story by Lily Tuck.
- Author Bio, Photo, and National Book Award Acceptance Speech.
- National Public Radio All Things Considered interview with Tuck (audio file).
- Charlie Rose interview with Lily Tuck and 2004 National Book Award Finalists (video file).