Elizabeth Tallent
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Elizabeth Tallent (born Elizabeth Ann Tallent, August 8, 1954) is an American fiction writer. She is the author of a novel, Museum Pieces (1985), and three collections of short stories: In Constant Flight (1983), Time With Children (1987), and Honey (1993). She has also written Married Men and Magic Tricks: John Updike's Erotic Heroes (1982), a work of literary criticism.
Tallent's short stories have been published in literary magazines and journals such as The New Yorker, Esquire, Harper's Magazine, The Threepenny Review, and North American Review, and her stories have been reprinted in the O. Henry Prize Stories, Best American Short Stories, and Pushcart Prize collections. Her short story "No One's a Mystery" is said to have been inspired by singer Roseanne Cash's version of the John Hiatt song "It Hasn't Happened Yet".[citation needed]
In addition to writing, Tallent, who was born in Washington, D.C., has taught literature and creative writing at the University of California, Irvine, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the University of California, Davis. She has been a faculty member at Stanford University since 1994.
