Lily Tuck

Lily Tuck (born Oct. 10, 1938) is an American novelist and short story writer whose novel The News from Paraguay won the 2004 National Book Award for Fiction.^[1] Her novel Siam was nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.^[2] She has published four other novels, a collection of short stories, and a biography of Italian novelist Elsa Morante (see "Works" below).

An American citizen born in Paris, Tuck now divides her time between New York City and Maine; she has also lived in Thailand and (during her childhood) Uruguay and Peru.^[3] 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".^[4]

Works

Novels

• I Married You For Happiness. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-8021-1991-9
• The News From Paraguay. New York: Harper Collins, 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

• 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: Harper Collins, 2008. ISBN 978-0-06-147256-5

References

1. ↑ "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.)
2. ↑ "2004 National Book Award Winner: Fiction: Lily Tuck". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2008-08-19. 
3. ↑ Rohter, Larry (2005-02-17). "'Paraguay' author finally goes there, finding an uproar". New York Times. Retrieved 2008-08-19. 
4. ↑ "An Interview with Lily Tuck". Book Browse. Retrieved 2008-08-19. 

External links

• 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).