Lily Tuck

Lily Tuck
Born (1938-10-10) October 10, 1938 (age 86)
Paris, France
NationalityAmerican
EducationRadcliffe College (BA)[1]
Genreshort story, novel
Notable awardsNational Book Award for Fiction

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]

She has published five other novels, two collections of short stories, as well as her biography of Italian novelist Elsa Morante.

  1. ^ "Lily Tuck: An Inventory of Her Papers at the Harry Ransom Center".
  2. ^ "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.)
  3. ^ "Lily Tuck: A Reflection on Marriage and Grief". Retrieved 2024-08-27.
  4. ^ "2004 National Book Award Winner: Fiction: Lily Tuck". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2008-08-19.
  5. ^ "LILY TUCK". gf.org.